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IVBNINO JOURNAL PRINT, NO. 46 DBARBORN BTRB9

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AN ANSWER

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" WHAT SHALL THEY DO TO BE SAVED? 1 *
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Fitz Hugh Ludlow, in one of his brilliant
articles in Harper, says : — " A patient, whom,
after habitual use of Opium for ten years, I met
when he had spent eight years more in reducing
his daily dose to half a grain of Morphia, with a
view to its eventual complete abandonment, once
spoke to me in these words : — ' Grod seems to help
a man in getting out of every difficulty but Opium.
There you have to claw your own way out, over
red-hot coals, on your hands and knees, and drag
yourself by main strength through the burning
dungeon bars.' "

. The discovery of a sure Antidote for Opium nas
been the object of many years of careful research
by some of the most eminent physicians of all
lands ; — but though they had ranged through the
wide field of materia medica, and exhausted almost
every resource known to Science, their labors were
not crowned with success.

Fluttering hopes had, ever and anon, been flung

out to the agonizing thousands of those whom

a was rapidly dragging down to the grave ;

to the thousands who had, all unwittingly been

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drawn by the fatal allurements of the accursed
drug into that hell already prepared for them,
lying just beyond life, and just this side of the
grave; — a hell from which escape seems impossible,
for even death is denied them ; — but they have been
as the light of the Ignis Fatuus, which shines only
to deceive.

But in the mysterious dispensation of an over-
ruling Power, it has been the fortune of an
humbler disciple of Esculapius, groping blindly 'n
the darkness, but praying earnestly for the light,
to find in answer to his prayer, the secret so long
hidden — the object of the search of so many
years.

How in reality, did he see all around and beside
him, the agonized, upturned faces of those for
whom there was no salvation ; how harshly
sounded in his ears the clanking of those chains
which no power save the hand of Death could
loosen ; and how, as he dreamed of the future, did
he see the shackles struck from those millions of
slaves — how sweetly sounded in his ears the hal-
lelujahs of the saved ! •

In the remedy of Dr. Collins can be found a
speedy and a sure relief for the Opium Eater —
a certain and a perfect cure — accomplished with-
out pain and without inconvenience.

There need be no interruption of the usual
transactions of business, during the treatment —

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the Antidote serving, for the time being, as a per-
fect substitute for Opium-— and finally removing
sntirely any desire for the drug in any form.

Nor does the Antidote in any way induce a
\xabit of relying upon its sustaining power for a
jingle instant after the need for Opium has dis-
appeared.
In short :

It entirely, and without pain, removea
the desire for Opium in any of its nu-
merous forms — or for any substitute
for Opium whatever;
It builds up the system, no matter how
low it may have been brought by the
use of Opium ;
And, It leaves the patient as nearly as may
be in the same condition as when
he first took into his system the deadly
poison.
It is not a patent medicine but is com-
pounded expressly for the patient for
whom it is prescribed, and upon a full
statement of his case ;
It is not a Panacea. It is designed
and adapted only for the cure of the
Opium Habit, and is not represented
as curing any other disease or habit ;

G THE OPIUM HABIT.

And It i? not, in the common acceptation of
that word, a Substitute for Opium —
it is an entire cure.

While effecting the cure, the Antidote takes the
place of Opium, and insures the patient against any
pain, until he shall be able m forswear Opium
altogether, and feel no desire whatever for it, or
any substitute therefor.

There are few cases of the Opium Habit so con-
firmed that the Antidote of Dr. Collins will not
cure without suffering, in from 6 to 20 months.
It is true there may be cases, which, from the com-
plication of other diseases with the disease of
Opium Eating, may require a somewhat longer
period — but such cases are very rare.

Persons desiring treatment are required to state

1. The exact amount of the drug used weekly ;

2. Whether Gum Opium, Morphia, Laudanum,
or preparations of Opium in other forms ;

3. The number of dose3 per day, and at what
hours taken ;

4. What disease, if any, caused them to form
the habit ;

5. The present condition of health ;

6. Sex ;

7. Age;

8. Occupation ;

9. Daily habits of life :

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And upon this diagnosis the Remedy is prepared,
and expressly for that particular case ; the length
of time required for a cure frankly given to the
person, and a cure guaranteed when all orders of
the Doctor are promptly carried out.

It should be remembered that upon the truth as
regards the amount of Opium used, depends in a
great degree, the efficacy of the Antidote

It will be aavisable for patients to order five or
six bottles of the medicine at a time, as by that
means they save express charges, and avoid the
danger of getting entirely out of the Antidote be-
fore they can receive more. Each bottle will last
one month, if taken according to directions.
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Under no circumstances whatever should any
person taste of the medicine prepared for any pa-
tient — nor should any patient take or even taste
of any medicine prepared for another patient.

A patient, while under treatment, should avoid
vinegar and all other acids, and if, at any time
acid fruits should be eaten, they should be well
sweetened ; — and all spirituous liquors should be
".artfully avoided.

Only when all directions are carefully followed,
is a cure guaranteed.

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TERMS.

It has often occurred that Opium Eaters who
have been referred to those whom the Antidote has
cured, have ordered their medicine through those
parties — supposing, perhaps, that it would expe-
dite its delivery and lessen its price. And it has
come to the knowledge of Dr. Collins, that in sev-
eral instances, those patients have been compelled

TO PAY ONE HUNDRED PER CENT MORE THAN THE

doctor has charqed. For example : — Mr. F,
of Michigan, ordered, through a reference of the
Doctor's residing in the East, five bottles of medi-
cine, for which the Doctor charged fifty dollars.
After a great deal of circumlocution the medicine
arrived, and cost the patient — as per letter now
on file — One Hundred Dollars. To avoid this
wrong — and to avoid many delays and misunder-
standings — the Doctor has advised all patients,
when ordering medicine, to order directly from
him.

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Patients using Gum Opium, Laudanum, Elixir
of Opium, or other preparation of the drug, must
state explicitly the amount of either — and they
will be charged according to its equivalent in
Morphine.

All bills payable monthly in advance, by draft
on some National Bank, or Post Office order.
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While Dr. Collins fully appreciates the motives
which actuate many of those who are rescued f?om
the terrible and certain fate of the Opium Eater,
ir, making known to suffering humanity at large
the sure way of their salvation ; — - and while he

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refers with pleasure the Opium Eater to them by
name, expecting them to make all inquiries with
regard to the truth of that which lies so near their
hearts — he has found, that injustice to himself, —
and in justice to his patients, no orders for medi-
cine SHOULD PASS THROUGH THIRD HANDS, but

should be addressed directly to him.

This will always insure the speedy personal
attention of the Doctor, and will protect him as it
will protect them against many e/rors, and per-
haps misrepresentations.

All communications are strictly confidential —
as are also all names — when requested, and all
letters of inquiry and all orders for medicine will
be promptly answered and attended to.

Address, enclosing stamp for return postage,
Dr. Saml. B. Collins,
LaPorte,

LaPorte County,
P. 0. f>ox, 166. Indiana.

Dr. Collins refers to any citizen of LaPorte
whose own standing in society is good, regarding
his private character and his public standing.

That the Opium Eater can he cured without stcf-
fering — regardless of the amount of Opium which
may have been used, and regardless of the length
of time to which the patient may have been ad-
dicted to the habit — I subjoin the following m^m-

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>randa of the amount of the drug used monthly
>y a few of my patients whose names I have been
tindly permitted to use.

I also present a few of the many certificates of
mres, which I have permission to publish, and I
xereby offer a reward of Five Hundred ($500)
Dollars for the discovery of a single fictitious
lame a^mong any to which I may refer.

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A. P. Andrew, Jr., LaPorte, Ind. Habit of
20 years standing. Used 2 lbs.
Laudanum per month.
J. 0. Darrow. Adrian, Mich. Habit of 6 yeara
standing. Used 270 grains of
Morphia per month.
D. Chapman. Chicago, III. Habit of 14 years
standing. Used 540 grains Morphia
per montn.
Dr. J. H. Clark, Chicago, 111. Habit of about
20 years standing. Used 600 grains
Morphia per month.
Mr. W., (No permitted to use name.) Habit of
8 years standing. Used 900 grains
Morphia per month.
W. W. Culver, Bluff Point, N. Y. Habit of 20
years standing. Used 1040 grains
Gum U Hum per tauuiu.\

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Mr. L., (Not permitted to use name.) Time not
known. Used 1500 grains Morphia
per month.

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TESTIMONIALS.

A. P. Andrew, Jr., of LaPorte, LaPorte Co.,
Ind., deposeth and saith : That he is sixty-eight
years of age — that previous to July, 1868, he
was for twenty years addicted to the use of Opium,
the last eighteen year3 of which he was confirmed
in the Habit. That on the 18th day of July,
1868, he commenced taking a Substitute com-
pounded by Dr. S. B. Collins, of LaPorte — that
he continued to take the Substitute according to
directions, until the 13th of December following,
when he was pronounced cured. That since which
time he has not taken Opium in any of its forms,
nor any substitute therefor — that he feels no de-
sire or necessity for the use of Opium — that he
feels entirely cured of the Habit, with good appe-
tite, sleeps well, and his general health is as good
as he could expect at his age — that he published
in the Banner of Light,, Boston, March 13, 186.',
a more particular statement of his cure — and
that he has no pecuniary interest whatever in the
cure, but makes this deposition voluntarily, for the
benefit of humanity. A. P. Andrew, Jr.

Sworn and subscribed to before me, the under-
signed Justice of the Peace, this 10th day q\
.August, 1869.

Harvey Brown, Justice &f the Peac*

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A CARD

Adrian, Mich., April 26, 1868.
Dk. Saml. B. Collins — Dear Sv\ Cheer-
fully will I comply with your request to inform
you how I progress in the cure of the Opium
Habit. It is now nine days that I have used your
medicine, and have worked every day since I re-
turned home from LaPorte, and have not taken a
particle of Morphine since I took the first dose of
your medicine. I have not suffered any rheu-
matic pains or felt anyways uneasy, and have been
enabled to sleep as calmly and peacefully nights
as I ever did in my life.

As it is my sincere wish that you will cause this
to be published, for the benefit of those who are
suffering with this horrible habit, I will state that
I have been a slave to the habit of using Morphine
for six of the longest years I ever experienced.
The last year or two I have taken from eight to
ten and twelve grains of Morphine per day, enough
to destroy life in the same number of persons. If
I omitted taking Morphine one day, I would be-
come completely prostrated and nerveless, would
have a flushing and burning sensation one moment,
and be completely chilled the next ; there are no
words in the English language suitable to express
the feeling to one not in the Habit, or what I have
had to endure when I tried to abstain from^caking
th* drug. During the last three or four years I

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bave consulted several physicians of extensive
practice, and have tried many Nervines, l?o ca
and Stimulants that I thought would benefit rne,
but found nothing that would even answer as a
substitute, much less a cure, until I tried Dr.
Collins' treatment.

I had tried so many different remedies and
failed, that I had become completely discouraged,
and had given up in despair, thinking there was
no cure for this accursed Habit. I had not a par-
ticle of faith in any remedy. But thanks to Dr.
Collins, he has discovered a Cure, and it may be
justly considered the most wonderful discovery of
this or any other age, for he is the only doctor up
to the present time I have heard of who has dis-
covered a cure for any person who has become
confirmed in the Opium Habit. It will take eight
months to entirely eradicate the effects of the
Morphine from my system and restore my health ;
but I have felt enough better, by using his medi-
cine one week, to amply repay me what he charges
if it was nothing but a substitute. I will further
state that I never saw Dr. Collins ur.tii I went to
LaPorte to be examined for this Habit, but what
I did see and hear of him leads me to consider
him a straightforward, conscientious, honest man
and am confident he will do a3! that he
to do in his advertisement.

Josiph C. Darrow

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EOPE FOR THE SLAVE

Adrian, Mich., July 4, 1869.
jSditors Laporte Arous : For over six years
I was a slave to the Habit of using Morphine,
with not a ray of hope of ever being emancipated,
until I commenced using Dr. Saml. B. Collins*
wonderful discovery for the Opium Habit. I have
been under his treatment eleven weeks, have not
used a particle of Morphia since I commenced
taking his medicine, and have been able to work
most of the time. I have visited him twice in the
eleven weeks, and conversed with those he has
cured, (and those who are being cured,) and found
them all highly pleased, and perfectly satisfied
that the Doctor has done, and will do, all that he
advertises to do. I sincerely hope all those who
are addicted to this soul-destroying Habit will
avail themselves of this, their only hope, and try
his wonderful Remedy which is destined to astonish
the whole medical faculty — in fact, the whole
world. Patients, in most cases, by following his
directions strictly can be cured at their homes,
without visiting the Doctor, as he can send medi-
cines by express.

Joseph C. Darrow.

CURED

Joseph C. Darrow, formerly of Adrian, Lena-
wee Co., Michigan, now of LaPorte, LaPorte Co.,
Ind., ddposeth- and eaith : " That he is thirty-five

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years of age — that previous to April 18, 1869,
he had been addicted to and confirmed in the Habit
of using Morphine for six years. That on the
18th day of April he commenced taking the Rem-
edy lately discovered, and prescribed by Dr. S. B.
Collins, of LaPorte — that he commenced taking
the Remedy according to directions, until the 15th
of November following, when he was pronounced
cured. That since Nov. 15th he has had Mor-
phine at his command, with no necessity or desire
to use it, or anv substitute therefor ; that he feels
entirely cured of the Habit, with good appetite,
sleeps well, and his health is improving daily.

Joseph C. Darrow.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 27th
day of Nov., A. D. 1869.

Harvey Brown, Justice of the Peace

LaPorte, Ind., July 30, 1869.

Dr. Collins — Dear Sir: 1 noticed a letter
from A. P. Andrew, Jr., of this city, in one of
your weekly newspapers in regard to Opium Eat-
ing, and being addicted to the Habit I was induced
to try the medicine prescribed by you.

I will state that for the last eighteen years ]
have been constantly in the use of Opium in dif-
ferent forms, and for the last two years I have
used two and a half drachms of Morphine per
week.

I commenced taking your medicine the 8d of

THT? OPIUM HABIT. IT

May, 1869, and up to this date, I have had no de-
sire to use Opium in any form. Since I began
taking your medicine I have not suffered any pain,
and my general health has improved, sleep well,
and have a good appetite. Before taking the
above medicine, I had applied to different mem-
bers of the Medical Faculty, and tried all the
antidotes I could find in medical works, all of
which did me no good.

Since I have been taking the medicine I have
seen a number of persons whom you have cured,

and others who are being cured.

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Oregon, Holt Co., Mo., Nov. 10, 1869.

Editor Chicago Journal — Sir: I desire to
publish to the world my observations in one case,
wherein a person who has been addicted to Opium
Eating has been cured of the Habit, without any
suffering whatever. On the contrary, the patient
has assured me repeatedly that from the first day
that he abandoned the use of Opium and began to
use the Remedy, he has been in better health and
spirits than he ever was during the time of using
the Opium.

During the last four years he has used from two
to four drachms of Morphine per week. From
two hundred pounds weight he fell to one hundred
and fifty pounds ; for five years he had not a nat-

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urat operation of the bowels, and it required enor-
mous quantities of physic to have any effect. His
color was that of a dead person, his eyes glassy
and sleepy. In short, Opium Eater was branded
on his countenance as plainly as it ever was on
that of any one. He could not fix his attention
five minutes on a book, without going to sleep.
He was rapidly advancing to the last stage of
Opium Eating. Frequently he tried to reduce
the dose, but the less the dose the more stupid he
became, and the more obstinate the constipation of
the bowels. When the doses became considerably
reduced, he had not energy enough to do business.
He had no appetite for food, save at breakfast,
just after his morning's dose of from fifteen to
twenty grains of Morphine.

Hearing that Dr. Saml. B. Collins of LaPorte,
Ind., had discovered a Remedy for the Habit, by
which he professed to effect a complete cure with-
out any pain or suffering whatever, and having
satisfied myself by inquiries that several persons
had been cured, I advised him to try it.

I should have stated that he had several times
tried to relinquish the Habit, but endured such
awful agony at each attempt, that it was more
than human nature could persist in. He seemed
to have no confidence in any remedy, but was
finally prevailed on to try this one. He 3aid that
if he felt the least pain or inconvenience, he would
resume ^the use of Morphine, for that he would
prefer to die at once than to e^ ^ure in any degree

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the torments of an abandonment of the habit. A
bottle of the medicine was procured, the regular
dose of Morphine was omicted, until he began to
suffer from the want of it, and one dose of the
Remedy was tried. In two minutes he exclaimed:
" That medicine has hit the very spot ; I believe
in it."

Two days afterward, he met me, and said to
me : "I have found a cure at last ; I have not
touched Opium in any shape for three days. I
inquired if he felt sure that there was no Opium
in the Remedy. " Look at me and see," he ex-
claimed. On inspection, I found that his color
was much improved, his eyes had a natural expres-
sion. This was nearly three months ago. All the
marks of Opium Eating have disappeared from his
countenance. The organs of the body all perform
their natural functions. From the very first day
that he tried the Remedy he has pursued his daily
business ; light has returned to his eye, and color
to hi3 cheek.

The case has been under my observation daily
from the beginning, and I am satisfied that the
Remedy does just what is claimed for it, viz ;
— " cure3 the Opium Habit without the slightest
pain or inconvenience."

That heretofore there has been no hope for the
Opium Eaters, that their sufferings consequent on
an abandonment of the drug " are unparalleled in
the universe," all who have witnessed, must admit.
Hence, I consider this one of the greatest discov-

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cries in our century. As it is but little known, I
should liko tv> assist in spreading abroad a knowl-
edge of the fact that such a Remedy has been
found. I have onlv its effects in this one case,
yet from its operation, and the peculiar character
of the case, I feel confident it will operate as a
cure of the Habit in all.

If my confidence is well-founded, then, indeed >
we have a triumphant answer to the question so
triumphantly argued by Dr. Ludlow, in a last
year's nuuiber of Harper's Magazine, " What
Shall They Do to Be Saved ? " It will afford me
pleasure to assist in giving information to any who
may inquire. Respectfully,

Matthew Saville, M. D.

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COMMUNICATION FROM W. W. CULVER.

In this unparalelled age of reform has already
been greater and more important discoveries to
benefit and ameliorate the condition and wants of
humanity than in all recorded previous time. To
one especial instance I beg to advert. It is the
remedy of Dr. S. B. Collins, of La Porte, Indiana,
for the Opium Habit.

I should be dealing unkindly with my sym-
pathetic nature to forego an opportunity to make
public-my testimony as- an actual expert or demon-
strator of the infallible efficacy of Dr. CollnV
treatment for the expulsion of the destruct'vt

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habit of Opium Eating, and the use of the drug in
any known form. If there lives a person who has
suffered what I have from the use of Opium, who
could feel indifferent to the misery of others under
like suffering, or who would be slow to sound a
timely note of alarm to the uninitiated, or point
a means of salvation for the already enslaved
victim, I can think of no punishment better
adapted to such an one than to subject him again
to the afflictions of the habit.

Almost twenty years ago I was addicted to the
daily use of Opium, and, but for the timely intel-
ligence of the discovered remedy of Dr. Collins,
should this day still be an Opium Eater, or have
sought release from the enthrallment by voluntary
suicide. Dr. Collins is the only man known in
the history of the world who ever obtained a
victory over the terrible enslavement of Opium.
Under no other treatment was a patient ever cured
of the habit without enduring suffering which
not one organization in a hundred could endure
unimpaired, if at all, and never one who would
pass through the ordeal a second time for the
wealth of the world.

I speak with the authority of experience in this
matter, having made it a subject of demonstration ;
and yet I can conceive of no one capable of being
less credulous in relation to the discovery of an
antidote for the habit than I was when the faot
was first announced by advertisement in a publio

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journal; for I had been using every expedient
against the habit on which I could predicate a
rational hope of success, and expended time and
money at several expensive infirmaries, claiming
to treat successfully the habit, and been baffled in
every undertaking for relief. I examiued all the
published authorities on the subject, but found
nowhere anything to encourage my hopes, but, on
the contrary, ascertained to my satisfaction that
there had never been a cure effected greater than
one in a hundred could endure and live.

Having received such evidence from the Doc-
tor's patients as no one worthy of cure could
doubt, in the month of December, 1869, I left a
comfortable home and traveled over five hundred
miles to visit the Doctor, then beginning to be
esteemed as my prospective savior. On the 21st
of the month I had satisfied myself of the genu-
ineness of the Doctor's practice. In the office he
occupied I took the first dose of the antidote,
from which time to the present I have used in no
form one particle of Opium, nor have I felt a
desire for it, nor any actual suffering from its dis-
use, and nothing more than a transient uneasiness
once or twice.

It is now four months and four days since I
abandoned the habit, and I truly aver that during
the time I have felt decidedly better than while
indulging the habit. I should already have dis-
continued the use of the Antidote, but that the

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Doctor advised me to continue its use a few weeks.
I feel no desire or use for either Opium or the
Antidote at this time, and consider myself cured.
1 teem to be transported into a new and more
delightful sphere of existence than I have known
for a series of past years. I find beauties, endear-
ments and enjoyments, where, under the abnor-
malities I was suffering, I saw nothing to cheer
my despondency. The elements that surround
me all impart a new inspiration and present a
changed aspect. I am stimulated into the exercise
of a new ambition, and, finally, " old things seem
passed away, and all things are become new."

In consideration of the fact that during the last
two centuries the medical faculty have exhausted
their skill in the search for a remedy for the hor-
rible suffering from the Opium habit, without
pretense of success, I may well allude to the
discovery of Dr. C. as standing pre-eminent among
modern discoveries in the field of therapeuties and
materia medica.

While at La Porte to visit the doctor, I saw
there, one of his first patients, who had been cured
for nearly a year, whose experience, as related in
detail, was identical with that attending my own.
The medicine is a liquid decoction, and not
nauseous or much unpleasant to use — not more so
than Opium or Morphine — and can be conveniently
forwarded, by express or otherwise.

If the foregoing details of Opium Cure induce

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any unhappy victim to seek relief by the easy pro-
cess of regeneration I am now enjoying, or should
the uninitiated be put on their guard against the
insidious seductions by which the habit is formed,
I will have received a satisfactory requital for my
pains.

W. W. Culver,

Bluff Point, Yates' Co., N. Y.
April 25, 1870.

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D. CHAPMAN, & CO.,

Forwarding and Com.,

Foot Wabash Ave.,

Chicago, June 26, 1870.
Dr. S. B. Collins — Dear Sir: I feel that T
owe you an obligation which I shall never be able
to pay, and therefore take this course to acknowl-
edge it. One year ago the 24th day of April, I
put myself under your treatment for the habit of
using Morphine, which I had used constantly for
fourteen years and was a perfect slave to the ter-
rible habit and supposed I always would be as I
could get no relief from the best physicians ; but
from the very first dose I took of your Medicine I
had no desire for Morphine, nor did I suffer half
as much as I did for the want of Morphine when
I was taking that habitually. I never lost a day
at my business, and my health was good all the
time I wae under your treatment, which was up
to about the first of December, last, when I left

THE OPIUM HABIT. 25

off taking anything and am now all right and
take no more Morphine. If you wish to use my
name as a reference you are welcome to do so and
I will be glad to tell any that may come my ex-
perience as a Morphine Eater, for I believe I can
sympathize with any one that is so unfortunate as
to have such a habit.
Yours truly,

D. Chapman.
o

TO OPIUM EATERS,

EXPERIENCE OF ONE ADDICTED TO THE HABIT.

St. James, Mo., Jan. 20, 1870.

Editors Herald: Will you please, for
humanity's sake, give this letter one insertion in
your valuable and widely-circulated paper ?

I have been a practicing physician in the city
of St. Joseph for near twenty-three years, during
which time I have done a very large practice, and
I would say, (not flattering myself,) have some
reputation as a physician in Northwest Missouri.
About four years ago, I fell into the unfortunate
habit of taking Opium. After using the drug that
length of time, (four years), it began to tell on my
health considerably. I would at one time have
given thousands of worlds to have got rid of the
miserable habit. I tried some half a dozen times
to break off the habit, but failed in every instance,
so I had pretty much given up all hopes of
recovery.

About this time, December 16th, 1869, I

26 THE OPIUM HAl'. IT.

learned, through my friend Gen. Bassctt, of this
city, that there was a physician in La Porte, J ml.,
Dr. S. B. Collins, who put up a Substitute for the
Opium Habit, and like a drowning mau catching
at a straw, I resolved to try the remedy at once ;
and I do declare, before God and man, that from
the first dose of the Remedy, I have not had the
least disposition or desire to take Opium in any
form whatever, nor did I suffer any of those in-
describable, horrid, melancholy feelings which an
'Opium Eater experiences after stopping the use of
the drug. I have now been using the Remedy six
weeks. When I first commenced the use of it, I
was under the necessity of taking from five to six
teaspoonfuls a day ; now I only require one tea-
spoonful in the twenty-four hours, just before
going to bed, and I have no doubt that in two or
three weeks more I can dispense with the Remedy
altogether. I look upon it as one of the most
remarkable discoveries of the age, and the great-
est boon that God ever gave to the unfortunate
Opium Eater. If there are any Opium Eaters in
this city or its vicinity, {and I doubt not but
there are a few,) if they will call at my office, I
will take pleasure in telling them all I know
about this wonderful Remedy, and how promptly
it has acted in my case.

I would here most positively state aud affirm
that I have no interest, pecuniarily, in this Medi-
cine, never having seen Dr. Collins in piy life.

THE OPIUM HABIT. 27

The reason, and the only reason in writing this
letter is, that it may be the means of saving some
poor unfortunate person who has become a slave
to the accursed thralldom of the Opium Habit. I
would to God that all the newspapers in the city,
yea, in the United States, would publish and copy
this letter, if it would thereby be the means oi
saving one poor unfortunate person from the
miserable and unfortunate habit of Opium Eating.
Jno. B. Howard, M. D.

4 , T

P. S. — It might be proper to state that when J.
began the use of the drug, I weighed 220 pounds ;
during the use of the drug I lost about forty
pounds in weight, but now, thank God, I am
gaining rapidly in health, strength, and flesh.
My appetite is good, my digestion is perfect, and
I rest well of nights. J. B. H.

A few months later a letter was received from
Dr. Howard, stating that he was completely and
permanently cured, but the letter has been mis-
laid, and caunot be found.

o

[Fbom the Lowell (Mass.) Coubier.]
TO OPIUM EATERS.
In this paper can be found Dr. S. B. Collins 5
circular, addressed to all that are or have been in
the habit of using Opium in any of its different
forms. All that is stated by those that have been
cured and that are being treated by Dr. Collins,
and more particularly what his patients say of his

28 THE OPIUM HABIT.

Antidote, I know from experience to be true. I
would say that for more than six years, prior to
July 17th last, I had been a slave to the constant
use of Morphine — I had increased its use from
ene-fourth of a grain to ten and twelve grains per
day. Language would fail me were I to attempt
to describe the misery and agony that I experi-
enced for the last two years, and more especially
for the last six or eight months, prior to the date
indicated. I had sought advice and cure from
the best and most eminent physician's in the
country, an antidote I plead for, from them all,
but plead in vain. I then sought consolation in
books that gave the experience of Opium Eaters,
De Quincy and Coleridge in particular ; in fact
every book that I could find, that gave the experi-
ence of Opium, Morphine, Laudanum, Elixirs,
etc. ; but the more I read the more miserable J
became, as I found that none of the authors had
been cured or enabled to give up their favorite
drug. By mere accident I heard that Dr. Collins
had discovered an Antidote. I wrote to him, and
several prominent men and officials of the town,
(in which the Dr. lived), from whom I learned
that he was a man of integrity in every sense of
the word, and that his Discovery or Antidote had
performed several remarkable cures. I sent $25.00
to the Doctor, with a request that he would send
me its value in his Antidote, which I received July
17th last. I did not feel much confidence in it,

THB OPIUM HABIT. 29

but to my surprise, from the first tea-spoonful I
took of it, I was relieved from the indescribable,
horrible, terrible agony that Opium Eaters know
eo well, but cannot describe, and have not tasted
nor craved Opium in any of its different forms
since. I have not lost a meal nor an hour's sleep
since by reason of leaving off the drug. My
general health has improved, my appetite is better,
and in fact I almost feel myself in a new world.
I never knew or heard of anything so very
wonderful in its beneficial effects, and cannot say
enough in its favor. To all who have been so
unfortunate as to have contracted the use of
Opium in any form, I would say lose not a day,
but send to Dr. Collins and give him your age,
the length of time you have used it, and the
quantity you take per week or day, and get his
Compound; and just as sure as you follow his
directions, (which are very simple), just so sure will
you be cured, and bless the day you first heard
that there was an Antidote for the alluring drug.
* * * * Henry Read.

Lowell, Mass., Nov., '69.

30

Mr. Fit*; Hugh Ludlow, New York,

Sir : — I beg leave herewith to submit to your
kindly notice this little Pamphlet of mine, con-
taining, as you will see, your own Correspondence,
and a few extracts from the many letters of Mr.
Henry Read, bearing upon the subject of my
Discovery for the Cure of the Opium Habit.

As these letters — your own as well as Mr.
Read's — were private letters — that is, not written
with a view to their 'publication — my thus giving
them this wide publicity, requires, perhaps, an
explanation from me.

Personally, no man could invest a private letter
with a greater degree of sacredness than do I —
and while I most firmly insist that my rig litis in
this matter of the Opium Cure have been utterly
disregarded; while the honor of my discovery
has not been given to whom it is due; while I
have been wronged by design out of that of which
every laborer is worthy ; and while in self drfev.se
I have been driven to this dernier resort, I have
not, I assure you, listened so much to those per-
sonal promptings of pride and of self interest, a*
I have to what I firmly believe to be the voice of
an imperative duty which I oive to Humanity

Separated widely as we may be, you and I, Sir,
still hold in common a love for the human race;

FITZ HUGH IXTDUOW, 81

my heart as well a9 your own goe9 out toward the
suffering and the weak : we still hold in common
a veneration for the right.

Our common love for suffering humanity was
the ground upon which we met — I am sure we
shall never part because either fails in his venera-
tion for, or his championship of the right.

Your own letters — Mr. Read's letters — and the
facts in the case are before you, and I am sure
you will see the great wrong that has been done.

Your article in Harper admits of but one inter-
pretation — that you had accomplished, in the dis-
covery of an Antidote for Opium, the life-long
object of your search. The article, viewed, how-
ever, in the light thrown upon it by your letters,
shows a capability of a much different rendering.

The specific discovery to which you referred, or
promised to refer, was so carefully concealed that

your " NOBLE HEARTED AND PHILANTHROPIC

friend, Mr. Henry Read, of Lowell, Massa-
chusetts," to whom in your article you gave such
prominence, availed himself of his opportunity to
turn an honest penny by representino the article to
have been written in behalf of a supposed Antidote
discovered by a man by the name of Stillman.
The wrong which might thus have been done
to thousands of Opium Eaters who rely upon
the conscientiousness of your opinion is incalcu-
lable.

33 FITZ HUGH LUKLOW.

Either all this was pursuant to nn understand-
between youself and your "agent/' Mr. Read —
which I cannot believe — or Mr. Read in endanger-
ing the reputation of his friend, has assumed a
tremendous responsibility for which he should be ■
made to answer.

As between you and him, however, I have
nothing to do — my only object being to thus
briefly lay the matter before you, not doubting
that your sense of justice will dictate to you the
proper course to be pursued.

I am, Sir, respectfully,

Samuel B. Colliits.

18 West 14th St., New York, 1
Nov. 25, 1869. /

Dr. S. B. Collins — Dear Sir : It is possible
(hat you may know me b\ r name and have read
some of my published writings upon the subject
of the Opium Habit — perhaps have even read the
book of that name published by the Messrs. Har-
pers, in which you will then have had a good
chance to become acquainted with me. I will
only here say that I have for many years made
this most painful subject a specialty both of study
and treatment — have had, perhaps, a larger circle
of acqaintance with Opium Eaters than any one
else in this country, and have been so happy as to
cure a considerable number of the worst cases ou
record

FITZ HUGH LUDLOW. 33

None of these cases have, however, I frankly
acknowledge, been effected without severe and
long protracted suffering — although I have been
enabled to mitigate the horrors of the trial by the
bringing to bear of every faculty upon the judi-
cious selection of palliatives, to an extent which
made the agony far less than without my aid it
would have been.

But I have all my life been seeking in vain for
some remedy which would act as a substitute and
bring the patient out painlessly. Last spring I
was almost ready to give the search up in despair
— when two of my large circle of Opium corres-
pondents wrote me within a few weeks of each
other that you had succeeded in making the dis-
covery — at least that your circulars positively
announced the fact, and that several persons who
had had recourse to you had found your assertion
remarkably corroborated by their experience.

I can assure you that my heart leapt for joy at
the bare possibility of such a thing. I own I
should have been glad to have discovered for my-
self an agent, which, if it does all that you claim
for it is one of the grandest — most beneficent — most
glorious discoveries ever made in medicine — but God
knows that my pity for the terrible sufferings I
have seen is such that all professional pride utterly
sinks out of sight, and I would most gratefully to
both God and the discoverer come to learn of any
one who could confer such an inestimable boon as
your remedy purports to be.

34 FITZ HUGH LUDLOW.

If it does all that I understand to be claimed
for it, and is itself no form of extract from the
accursed poppy — then you have a right to the
thankful praise — the respect — the honorable tributes
of every man who loves his race: — you have made a
discovery, not one whit exceeded in importance by
Jenner's discovery of vaccination — one which will
quite as justly entitle you to applause, living, and
monuments uhen dead.

Out of a sincere heart I say this — high praise as
it may seem — for the suffering from Opium, in
un -numbered cases, I have seen to be greater than
that of any other disease or physical torture
whatever.

A few weeks ago, one of your patients (who cor-
responded with me for the first time after lie had
taken your Remedy), sent me a 2 oz. phial —
knowing from my writings that I should feel the
truest interest in trying the effect upon Opium
Eaters. I happened to have one case in particu-
lar just then under my charge, which seemed
sometimes almost hopeless from the complication
of other difficulties with the Habit of Opium, and
I used the small portion of your Remedy which
had been sent me, on that case aloie — beginning
with very small doses, and at several day's inter-
val apart, and not attempting to cut off the
patient's Opium, altogether, becau e I knew I had
only enough of your tincture for a very short and
incomplete experiment

FITZ HUGH LUDLOW. 35

My experience of it however, as far as it went,
snowed me that it possessed some quite remark-
able powers. I was able, by its aid greatly to
diminish the doses of Morphine and increased the
interval between them — and although I had no
opportunity to judge whether it would enable me
to out off the Opium altogether, I still saw enough
to make me think that possible, and to»give me a
desire to make the trial on some case like his.

I accordingly resolved to write you and make
the following proposition, viz: that you supply
me with enough of your discovery to make the
complete experiment in one case — and if I find it
result as my correspondents have said, I will not
only give you my personal thanks, but put you in
the immediate receipt of many hundred dollars
custom.

A- I have already said, I am in constant receipt
of a larger number of appeals for help from Opium
Eaters than any other man in this country — and
have a desk-full of applications now which I
could hand over to you and which would most
gratefully be answered by your Remedy — had I
once a chance of satisfying myself of its exact
value. Moreover, my position is such in connec-
tion with the press and the Medical Profession,
that I possess facilities for making you and your
Remedy widely known — such as no other man in
the country has. I can make it most immensely
for your interest to co-operate with me, if. after

36 FITZ HUGH LUDLOW.

the experiment we are convinced that it is for our
common good and that of suffering humanity.

At present, I will not go into further details,
but will only add that should you need to learn
of me further, you can write to Mr. Clarke Irvine,
Oregon, Holt Co., Mo., and if you have not got it
I will cheerfully send you the " Opium Habit "
book. *

My only desire is to save Opium Eaters —
pecuniary advantage is a most subsidiary consider-
ation — but if there is money to be made ont of
this Remedy at all, it is but right that you should
make it. I hope you will be able to patent your
secret, so that you may disclose it to the scientific
world without pecuniary loss, for if the Remedy
does what is claimed for it, it would be one of the
greatest of human calamities to have its mode of
preparation die with its discoverer. Oblige me
by an early answer, and if you think well of ray
proposition, express as much of the Remedy as
may suffice for the experiment. My direction is
"fritz Hugh Ludlow, 18 West 14th Street, New
York."

I am yours, truly,
(Signed) F. H. Ludlow.

18 West 14th St., N. Y., Jan. 23, 1870.
Dr. S. B. Collins — Dear Sir: I regret your
inability to supply me with the means for making
such a test of your remedy as would alone justify

FITZ HUGH LUDLOW. 37

any conscientious man of any scientific standing
in recommending it. You must see, of course,
that if such a man has achieved any position
where his good word could be of any value to
you, that position would be seriously imperilled
by his advising patients to take a remedy of which
he himself had no practical knowledge.

Any person who will consent to recommend a
remedy blindfold — simply on agreement that he
is to receive a percentage for every customer fur-
nished — must necessarily be a person whose opin-
ion is of no consequence one way or the other. I
know a number of practioners who would gladly
make an arrangement to procure takers for any
compound that could be invented, provided only
that they were well paid for the use of their
names — but I could not advise anybody to invest
very largely in their names who was seeking a
profitable speculation.

So I think it will be universally found — the
man whose influence is weighty and extended, and
whose praise really means something when he
gives it, is a man who never expresses an opinion
where he has not the most ample grounds for it,
and who by years of fidelity to scientific tests has
earned the reputation of truthfulness, caution,
mathematical exactness, experience and skill. So
far at least as conscientiousness and wide acquaint-
ance with the subject can make it, my reputation
is such an one as this. Whatever good my recom-
mendation and influence would do your remedy,

38 FITZ HUGH LUDLOW.

I have earned the ability to do for it by conscien-
tiously devoting a large portion of my life to the
study of the Opium Eater's unhappy condition,
and the attempt, to discover by what means I could
best help or save him — this, not primarily with a
view to my own aggrandizement, but because my
pity and sympathy for the most agonizing suffer-
ings which humanity is ever called to bear would
not let me rest.

If any one values my opinion it is because I
have tried to bring to this work all the resources
of science, all the ingenuity, all the patience
which I possessed — so that when I speak, people
will be sure at least that my conclusions are not
vitiated by any self interest, but are stated as
honestly as if I were advising a brother or a
sister, or prescribing for my own case.

Understand me, I do not pretend to deny that
the laborer is worthy of his hire — do not mean
to say that people who are able ought not to pay
and pay handsomely in proportion to their means,
for such a salvation as would be comprehended
in their rescue from the hell of Opium — more
especially when that rescue is painless as yours
professes to be.

I think no amount of money can begin to repay
the man whose labors have discovered such a sal-
vation as that. I only hope that sometime you
will see your way clear to putting it in the power
of every one to avail himself of that salvation —
as you would be able to do if you got a Patent,

FITZ HUGH LUDLOW. 39

and could sell rights everywhere. What a fright-
ful loss to suffering humanity it would be if such
a secret should die with you ! It seems to me
that I should have to come back from another
world to declare it, before I could rest. Of course
you know the universal unwillingness among
physicians to use any medicine which is kept a
secret from the profession. I, however, would
gladly stretch a point — so deep is my desire that
the awful sufferings of the many thousands of
Opium Eaters should be relieved — and not de-
mand to know your formula for preparing the
compound, nor any of its elements — if I could
only have the chance jf seeing a patient go
through with the trial, I, myself, administering
the remedy according to your directions.

Many scientific men would blame me for doing
this — but I have no dearer object than the relief
of human suffering, and if I find that a given
thing does relieve it without bringing worse evils
in its own train, I will not refuse to use it until
I can understand its modus operandi.

So, if I by using your medicine, following your
directions strictly, and seeing the result come out
satisfactorily under my own conscientious observa-
tion can ascertain that this medicine will effectually
cure the Opium Habit, I will gladly set people
taking it without waiting to find out. its composi-
tion. Nor need you fear that I would be a pre-
judiced judge. If you have discovered that most

40 rrrz hugh ludlovt

wonderful thing, a painless, even a comparatively
painless Opium Cure, I am as glad of it — I wel-
come it as cordially as if I had discovered it
myself.

My prejudices are all in its favor — I could
never judge it severely — I shall be only too
anxious to find it thoroughly fulfil all its promises,
will help it in every way, and feel no discourage-
ment nor alarm if any symptoms new to practice,
should arise during the process of cure. I know
that giving up Opium, involves a most tremendous,
upturning, overhauling, reconstruction of the con-
stitution, and am familiar, through countless cases
with the appearance of symptoms which any one
inexperienced would have thought fatal, and
which would have made them at once desist from
the effort to save the patient from his hell.

If, therefore, I have a chance to give your
remedy a trial, you may be sure that it can not be
submitted to any judge fairer toward it — or rather,
I should say, more prejudiced in its favor, for I
am ready to hail, with open arms, and give the
full weight of my influence to anything whatever,
that my own eyes have once beheld fulfil the
simple requisition of bringing the Opium Eater
out, with little or no pain.

As I told you in my last letter, I am in almost
daily receipt of letters from Opium Eaters cry-
ing for help — people ready to give all they possess
for salvation. People are constantly coming to

FTTZ HUGS tttDLOW. 41

see me — like the letters, some of them from
remote parts of the country — ready to do anything
if only they can get out of their hell, without
suffering so much as to lose life or reason. If I
can have your Remedy to try upon a single case —
so it can be wholly under my own eyes, yet treated,
as to the medicine, according to your directions
for its use, and that one case has at all a successful
issue — I will instantly see that all the others use
it, if you are able to supply it fast enough. I
could, this very hour, put you in the way of dis*
posing of thousands of dollars worth of your
Remedy, if you had already given me the fair
opportunity I ask.

Nobody, I can safely say, could more instantly
make your Remedy universal in its demand* I
have, as it were, the country full (represented by
my desk-full) of customers for you. The work of
years is done for you already, if you entrust your
Remedy to my hands for. a single case. Moreover,
if the experiment proves satisfactory, I possess
the power by using my pen in any dozen of the
many organs of public information open to me, as
a literary man no less thau a scientific one, to
make your Remedy known and clamored for,
from every corner of this country, and eventually
of the civilized world.

Nothing of this is boasting, but the simple
statement of facts which are necessary to be under-
stood between us, for I am seeking not my own

42 FITZ HUGH LUDLOW.

aggrandizement but the welfare of sufferers, for
whom my whole heart has been interested for
years. That those who can afford to pay for help
ought to do so — that I expect them to do so — that
it is better, both for the benefactor and benefited,
that they should do so is beyond question, and
whenever you conclude to put the matter in such
a shape that we can talk of business, I shall be
ready to do so — and you will find me as fair in
making arrangements, as I am in seeking the
necessarily previous experiment now. My view
of the best way for us to co-operate (should we
arrive at that purpose) is not yet fully formed, but
I have thought that perhaps the best way to
enable both of us to be useful to each other and
humanity, might be this, viz : that 1 should secure
the means for the establishment of a labratory
here in New York, large enough to supply the
demand, of the whole country, and that you, if you
are willing, should come on here and take the
entire charge of the manufacture of the Remedy: —
1 undertaking to manage the entire work of
creating the demand for it — making it known
through all the journals and magazines open to
me, and, if necessary, publishing a supplement to
" The Opium Habit " — a smaller book, to sell at
about cost price, and for gratuitous distribution
among the most influential practitioners and heads
of sanitary institutions — devoted entirely to the
enlightenment of the public upon this wonderful
new means of cure.

FXTZ HT7GH LTTDI/3W. 43

New York is and always must be the business
centre, and from iicre, accordingly, can better be
managed the vast system of correspondence and
manufacture and shipment, which would be im-
mediately demanded by so thorough an adver-
tising of the Medicine as I propose. If you are
not absolutely fastened to La Porte, your removal
to New York would be, in a business point of
view invaluable to you, and could easily be pro-
vided for.

Moreover, your Having entire charge of the
labratory would keep your secret, if that continues
to be an object with you, in your own hands,
while the Remedy was still undergoing the widest
advertisement — a thing which would be very diffi-
cult after it became widely advertised, unless you
limited the amount of your manufacture. And
that last would be sure to cause a prejudice against
it. Here, you could manufacture enough to sup-
ply all demands and have unequalled facilities for
shipping without entrusting the manufacture to
subordinate hands, at minor centres, all over the
country. I am not, however, so wedded to this
plan that I do more than throw it out for your
reflection.

Finally, then, to come to the point that is essen-
tial : In your answer to my former note, you say
that at that date you had not the facilities for
making the Medicine fast enough to supply the
customers you already had, but thai before long

44 CTTZ HUGH LUDLOW.

you hoped to be able to send me the first bottle of
the series requisite for the experiment I proposed.
In a letter from Mr. Darrow, to another gentleman
who forwarded it to me — Mr. D. says that you
told him you had heard from me and that you
were going to send me a package. I have not
received any such as yet — but one or two other
gentlemen who have been Opium Eaters and need
your Remedy, write so earnestly, begging that I
•would co-operate with you in making known
what they regard a great blessing, that I am will-
ing to waive all ceremony and again propose that
you should enable me try your Remedy. I shall
be very much pleased if it be within your power
to send me the Medicine at this time. I have one
patient who haa used Morphine for several years,
and though not an extreme case, is still from the
lack of any unfavorable complication a good one
to try the Remedy on. I am all the more willing
to make the trial with her, because you will have
a guarantee that I ask you to furnish your Medi-
cine from no motives of pecuniary selfishness, in
the fact that she is in very straightened circum-
stances, and I shall not charge her for either
Medicine or services a single cent. Her case has
deeply won my sympathies, and in giving me the
Medicine for her you will only be sharing a
benevolence with me and not aggrandizing me.
Indeed I hope that ray friends and I will be able
to afford her pecuniary aid beyond her cure.
She is a very refined and well taught woman,

FITZ HUGH LUDLOW. 45

who needs only to«be saved to herself to make her
own and an infirm mother's living very comfort
ably. If you write me on the receipt of this that
you are willing to furnish the requisite Medicine,
I aitf ready to begin at once and will forthwith
forward you a detailed statement of her case which
will enable you to prepare the successive bottles,
and will, as I have said, see that the Remedy is
administered strictly as you say.

Here is as good an opportunity as we shall
have to co-operate, and I shall be glad if you will,
as early as convenient, reply on the subject to
Yours, very truly,

(Signed) Fitz Hugh Ludlow,

18 West Uth Street, New York.

18 West 14th St., New York, \
Jan. 26, 1870. /

Db. S. B. Collins — Dear Sir: According to

my last note (though without waiting to receive

an answer) I herewith state to you the case of the

patient whom I desire to treat with your remedy.

(Here follows the statement of the case.)

* * * I have_always found that the length

of time during which the patient has been taking

Opium is a much more important element thau

the amount he has reached, in the question of cure.

*****

I do not know of a case among the hundreds
1 have seen, in which I would go to work with

46 FITZ HUGH LUDLOW.

more sanguine feelings in the *se of a Remedy
which is said to do all yours is, and there is the
additional motive to select this for an experiment
in the fact that the poor woman is indeed almost
utterly destitute, and a most worthy object of

benevolence in every respect.

* * * * *

Hoping to hear from you at an early date,
I am yours truly,
(Signed) Fitz Hugh Ludlow.

No. 18 West 14th St., New York, \
Feb. 14, 1870. /

*****

But the value of a Remedy which does as yours
is delared to is in the salvation of the Opium
Eater without the suffering and the absolute cessa-
tion from all labor ivhich are necessary with all
other means and plans of cure.

I know that I can cure Opium Eaters and
eradicate the Habit thoroughly, but I frankly
acknowledge that 1 cannot do it without its creating
more or less suffering — sometimes even severe suf-
fering to the patient — and taking him for a con-
siderable length of time from his avocations.

* * * I have sought in all our communi-
cations to deal with the utmost fairness and
courtesy myself, and I beg that you will not dis-
appoint me.

Yours truly,

(Signed) Fjtz Hugh Ludlow,

FITZ HUGH LUDLOW. 47

# 18 West 14th St., April 4, 1870.

* * * I regret to learn that your lungs are
diseased. If you will describe your difficulty, I
will, (supposing you care to have tne), do anything
in my power to advise and help you. Your life is
now too precious to be lost. I don't wish to appear
even to preach, but I must say that I think you
possess the most tremendous responsibility which
can belong to any man upon the' earth, in being
the possessor of a Remedy which wisely adminis-
tered can do so much for the human race.

*****

(Signed) Fitz Hugh Ludlow.

o

99 Clinton Place, New York, \
April 20, 1870. /

* * * When I have time to tell you my
proposition (before referred to) you will see that
I have a better and much cheaper plan for making
your Remedy widely known, than to put into
Harper's the advertisement you send — which
would cost a dollar a line. If you and I agree,
/ will publish a letter over my own name in Har-
per's, calling attention to the fact of a wonderful

discovery for the Opium Cure.

*****

(Signed) Fitz Hugh Ludlow.

99 Cllnton Place, New York, \
May 10, 1870. /

SL B. Collins — Sir: The package of five

48 FITZ HUGH LUDLOW.

bottles for which I last wrote, came duly to hand.
*****
I am going to take a very important case under
my direct charge — the cascof a quite distinguished
and eminent man, whose cure will be the greatest
of triumphs, and who has used Opium very largely
for years. I shall probably, as my own health
needs rest and recreation after my many long
years of hard work, take a voyage to England
with him, and stay in London a number of

weeks.

*****

If you will furnish me with all the medieino
necessary to treat this case — supplying me with a
sufficient stock of bottles (say 10 or 12) when I
start, to make sure the case should be interrupted
by no delays or accidents, at that long distance of
London from La Porte — I will put into both
Harper's Weekly and Monthly, over my own name,
two letters publishing your Discovery and its
value to the scve"".l millions who read those
periodicals. In no other way, by paying hun-
dreds for advertising, even, could you reach so
many people, or so well. Decide and let me know
your answer as early as possible.
Yours,

(Signed) Fitz Hugh Ludlow.

99 Clhjton Place, New York, )
June 14, 1870. /

S. B. CoJuLUfS— Sir: Our mutual friend, M>.

FIT2 HUGH LUDLOW. 40

Read, has just been paying me a visit and consult-
ing in regard to some arrangement by which we
can work together for the benefit of the Remedy
and the Opium Eaters.

I have only to say that I have read the prop-
osition he makes you, over again and again care-
fbily — and fully approve of it. I stand ready to
assist him in every way through the press if you
and he make the arrangement. Whatever he
says, or may hereafter say, on the subject, I agree
to. I give notice now, that he represents me in
every business arrangement with you in my absence.

I have now put into the Harpers' hands to be
published in the very first magazine that there is
room for it in, an article recommending your dis-
covery, that, every body who lias seen it says is
one of the finest things I ever wrote. Harper's
Magazine is always printed over a month ahead —
so it cannot come out in any shorter time — and I
rely upon you to believe me, and wait for it, and
not come down on Mr. Read for any money for
those 12 bottles until you have given it the proper
chance and time to be published. If you do come
clown on him for the money — of course I shall
at once learn of it by telegraph, and have the
article cancelled and not published at all. But I
believe you mean to act square.

Truly yours,
(Signed) Fitz Hugh Ludlow.

50 HENRY READ.

The following' extracts are taken from letters
written and signed by Mr. Henry Read, of
Lowell, Mass.

While it is true that they are only clippings —
and disconnected as such extracts must necessarily
be — the reader is assured that they are verbatim,
and that in no instance have the extracts been so
arranged as to change in the slightest, the obvious
and unmistakable meaning of their author, as the
original letters now in the possession of the com-
piler will prove.

o

■il!i. READ DISCOURSES CONCERNING HIMSELF.

(1.) "I have been indorsed by Secretary Bout-
well, our present Secretary of the U. S. Treasury,
and several Members of Congress, which, by the
way, is nothing very favorable to any man, as many
of the present Members of Congress are, in my
opinion, rather ' small potatoes,' and would indorse
anybody for pay — that is, unless they are belied."

(2.) " I have no ' horn to blow/ nor shall I
praise myself. But if you care to inquire, you
can ask the Mayor of our city, the Presidents and
Cashier's of any or all of our Banks here, and of
all or any Official, or any prominent man or men
here."

(3.) " I can secure the influence of Butler,
Sumner, Wilson, Dawes, Brooks, Banks,
Boutwell, and a majority of the Committee of
Ways and Means, if necessary/'

HENRY READ. 01

(4.) " I am your friend, Dr. Collins, and have
been, ever since the first dose I took of your
Compound."

(5.) " For if ever one man tried to help an-
other, / have tried to help you."

o

MS. BEAD DISCOURSES CONCERNING FTTZ HIGH LUDLOW,
AND PLACES HOI IN A SINGULAR LIGHT.

(6.) " The fact is, the Doctor don't want it
known that he and 1 are intending to make a busi-
ness arrangement with you — which, if made, must
all be in my name."

(7.) " But before anything is done or agreed
npoii, Dr. Ludlow must be away, out of the coun-
try, and not be known as an interested party at all"

(8.) " He, {Dr. L.,) thinks that he belter not be
known as being an interested party, except as a
Philanthropist."

(';>.') "If we come to any agreement, it must
not be known that Dr. L. has any interest in it,
save that of Humanity."

(10.) " The fact is, brother Collins, we must
please and keep sweet Dr. L."

(11.) "Dr. L. thinks he could be of most ser-
vice not to be known as a Partner, but to act in
behalf of the Compound, by recommending it to
Physicians, upon its merits."

62 HEJOTY BEAD.

(12.) Mr. Rend, writing from No. 99 Clinton
Place, N. Y., — Mr. Ludlow's address — under
date of June 13th — after making a sort of prop-
osition to purchase an interest in Dr. Collins'
Discovery, which proposition he claims to have
been written by Mr. Ludlow, says in explanation ;
"and I have copied it, as he don't want to be
known as being interested, as he can do ten times
more good not to be known as being interested with
me, or in any way interested, save as a writer and
* talker up' of it in the best literary papers."

ME. READ DISCOURSES CONCERNING THE SECRET.

(13.) "He, (Dr. Ludlow,) is the only M. D.
to whom you need to reveal the secret or articles
from which it (the Antidote), is compounded."

(14.) " Should you have any trouble in obtain-
ing a Patent, he, Dr. L., knows how to manage —
and if a scientific man like he is will indorse it
the Patent will be granted."

(15.) "If you have, or arc likely to have any
trouble in getting a Patent for your Discovery, I
can, with Dr. Ludlow's influence, help you
amazingly. I have a brother-in-law and several
relatives in Congress."

MR. READ DISCOURSES CONCERNING A PARTNERSHIP.

(16.) "I would advise you by all means to
accept of any terms Dr. Ludlow may offer."

HESTRY HEAD. 53

(17.) "I do hope that you and Dr. Ludlow
will arrange so you can receive his influence and
aid."

(18.) " I would come on to La Porte, and see
you, if you are disposed to make an arrangement
with me and the Doctor that would be advanta-
geous to us three."

(19.) "I will, immediatly after he, (Dr. L.,)
is gone, make you a good and liberal proposition
for a partnership or interest in your Antidote."

MS. BEAD DISCOURSES CONCERNING THE ARTICLE Df
HARPER, AND OTHER THINGS.

(20.) " (Dr. L.), says : ' that he has decided to
write you one or more letters and have them pub-
lished over his own name, in Harper and other
New York papers if you will furnish him with
the compound necessary for the cure of one patient
that he is going to take with him to Europe.' "

(21.) " I told you some time ago that Ludlow
had written for Harper or some other Magazine
or paper — and he did so write, and not only re-
ferred to you but your Discovery. This I know
and have seen extracts from it long and long before
'the piece in Harper appeared."

(22.) "The first article I read expressly told
the public that he was not the discovered of

THE CURE."

54 HENRY HEAD.

(23.) " I am in daily and hourly receipt of
letters from Opium patients that Ludlow's piece
is sending me.

His first article (that, it seems, you did not see)
— sent me 20 or more letters from Opium subjects."

(24.) " Dr. L. wrote a new piece yesterday, (a
splendid one), and the Harper's will put it in the
next issue. It is really the best article or notice I
ever saw written. He, in this new article, referred
Opium Eaters in this vieinity to me — so you will
have to send me a lot of medicine at once,
and at your lowest price, and I will charge all I
can get for it."

(25.) '* You will be pleased when you see Dr.
L.'s article in the Harper's Monthly. * * *
But such an article as he (Dr. L.,) has written,
(over his oivn name, too,) in favor of your
Antidote, I never saw written before in its
favor."

(26.) " The piece he (Dr. L.,) wrote last is the
best article I ever saw, and you may rest assured
it will be inserted and published."

(27.) " I heard the firm, (Harpers), or one of
them, say to Dr. L. these words : ' Not for one
thousand dollars, Dr. Ludlow, would we give room
in our Magazine for your article to any other man
than yourself!' "

HENRY READ. 65

(28.) " I will, as soon as I can find time,
(from my present harry), write all those corres-
pondents of Ludlow's, (that don't happen to see
his letter in Harper), and tell them to send for and
take the Antidote — Ludloiv requested me to do so"

(29.) " That you were not referred to by Lud-
low in his last letter I cannot and do not under-
stand. Yet he meant or intended no slight — else
why shoidd his first article refer to you and your
locality, and as the Originator and Discoverer of
this great Remedy ? "

(30.) " At all events you get the benefit of
every word he has said, and if you furnish the
Compound for the patients, wherein are you
harmed by the omission of your name, residence,
etc., in Ludlow's last article ? "

A FEW REMARKS BEARING UPON THE ABOVE EXTRACTS
AND THEIR ABTHOR, MR. READ.

Mr. Read comes to us very well indorsed by
those who ought to know him, (Extracts No. 1
and 2), and he is very rich in Congressional in-
fluence — though he does not value the latter very
highly — but a careful examination of his letters —
a comparison of his statements with the known
facts — and a general knowledge of his acts with
regard to the Discovery of Dr. Collins, must im-
press upon the mind of the reader the belief that
those indorsements and that influence, which, in

66 HExmr kejld.

giving, left the donors no poorer, were of inestim-
able value to Mr. Read — giving him something
upon which he might stand, and without which he
would be poor indeed.

The statement of Mr. Read that he was the
friend of Dr. Collins, (Extract No. 4), arises either
from a child-like innocence of what a friend is
and should be — or from a desire to deceive — to
cover up under the guise of a firm friendship the
deep wrong he was doing — for surely no one
would say that the facts in the case corroborate
his statements.

tVith an enthusiasm as great as though he were
really uttering a truth, he says : (Ex. 5) " For if
ever one man tried to help another, I have tried to
help you" — forgetting, alas, for his poor memory 1
that it stands in proof that he has all along been
playing a double game — has been false to Mr. Lud-
low — false to Dr. Collins — and last, let us hope
also, least — false to himself. He forgets that it is
in "proof that upon the face of Mr. Ludlow's
article in Harper, he lias recommended other
Remedies for the cure of the Opium Habit, as
being the one referred to by Mr. Ludlow.

Does the reader fancy Mr. Read knows more
about the suppression of Dr. Collins' name and the
insaiion of his own in the Harper article, than he
cares to tell? (See Ext. 29.)

Next to the great wrong which Mr. Read has

HENRY BEAD. 57

done to thousands of Opium Eaters, is the grev-
ious wrong he has done to his more than friend,
Fitz Hugh Ludlow. He has been trifling with
something with which he is not familiar — the hon-
orable name and fair reputation of a gentleman
and a scholar.

While Mr. Ludlow is very desirous of forming
a partnership with Dr. Collins, he wishes it to be
distinctly understood that it must not be Icnown
that he is an interested party at all — and all ar-
rangements mast be made in the name of Mr. Read.
(Ext. 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12.)

^He must be known only as being interested as
a Philanthropist — (Ext. 8j — or for the sake
of Humanity — (Ext. 9.) True Philanthropists
— men who really labor for the sake of humanity —
are very hard to And ; but it would not take long
to flood the market with such noble hearted phil-
anthrophy as that. But what careful reader of
the letters of Fitz Hugh Ludlow will believe that
the heart that dictated them could be utterly bad —
would believe that he, after years of labor to
build up for himself an honorable and an endur-
ing name, would hold that name thus lightly —
would sell it to the highest bidder !

All of Mr. Read's attempts to make himself the
confidante of Dr. Collins, having failed, and the
longed for secret being still beyond his grasp, he
endeavored to persuade the Doctor to patent his
discovery. Ex. (14, 15.) The casual reader might,

58 HENRY READ

perliap3, at once come to the conclusion that Mr.
Read's grand idea in offering to help the Discov-
ery to a Patent, was to obtain for himself a knowl-
edge of the secret — but this, the reader is assured
would be denied by Mr. Read. He would prob-
ably say that it was for the Doctor's good — or per-
haps for the good of humanity — for has not Mr.
Ludlow called Mr. Read his " noble hearted and
philanthropic friend ?"

Whether or not Fitz Hugh Ludlow knew the
man he was honoring by a prominent notice in
Harper, the reader may decide.

A Partnership was next strongly urged by Mr.
Read (Ext. 16, 17, 18,) but with his usual poor
success. He was not so blind but as to see that
the Antidote was one which was destined to be
known the world over, and perhaps Mr. Read
felt that with his influence it would do much more
good to humanity — for who would dare to say that
the noble hearted philanthropist ever for a moment
remembered self?

Does the reader wonder why Mr. Read must
needs have delayed the announcement of his prop-
osition until Mr. Ludlow had left the continent*!
(Ext. 19.) For philanthropic reasons?

The article in the Easy Chair of Harper for
August, and the misrepresentations regarding it,
was the immediate cause of the issuance of this
pamphlet — rand to that part of Mr. Read's letters

HENKY EEAD. 59

beating upon that subject, the attention of the
reader is requested.

Mr. Read says that Mr. Ludlow has decided to
write one or more letters for Harper, provided
Dr. Collin- would send him an amount of medi-
cine sufficient to cure one patient. (Ext. 20.)
This amount of medicine teas sent and its receipt
acknowledged in Mr. Ludlow s letter of June 14-th.

Mr. Read says, (Ext. 21,) that Mr. Ludlow had
written an article in which he referred not only to
Dr. Collins but to his remedy— and that, (Ext. 22)
in that article Mr. Ludlow expressly told the pub-
fir that he, Mr. Ludlow, wo* not the discoverer of
the cure, Now Mr. Read has been requested four
different tunes to give the name of the magazine or
paper in which that article appeared — but lie has
always avoided an answer.

Mr. Ludlow's first article (in which he used the
name of Dr. Collins) sent Read 20 or more letters
from Opium Eaters (Ext. 23). It never sent Dr.
Collins one letter a fact that might look very
strange had any one but Mr. Read said that such
an article ever appeared.

Extracts No. 24, 25, 26 and 27, were all writ-
ten before the article in Harper appeared, and the
idea which they were intended to convey is patent
to *he reader.

The " new piece" which Mr. Ludlow wroto
was " the best article Ar notice he (Mr. Read) ever

60 flEXHY READ.

saw written," and it referred, says Mr. Read,
"Opium Eater- in this vicinity to me" The
reader is requested to examine the article
from Harper and find the words " in this vicin-
ity" — or any words to the same effect.

The reader will observe that this enthusiastic
paragraph is closed by an appeal for a lot of med-
icine at the Doctor's lowest price, and a promise
that he (Read) would charge all he could get for it.
This, too, when Mr. Read knew that every bottle oj
the Anil tote was compounded for a particular pa-
tient, and would favorably effect none other.) Mr.
Read's philanthropy sometimes carries iiim to
great lengths.

\ RECAPITULATION OF JHR. READ'S LETTERS.

Mr. Read says he is indorsed by Secy. BoutwelL
(Ex.1)

This gives Secy. Bout well a large contract.

Mr. Read says he has no " horn to blow" him-
self. (Ex, 2.)

But he nominates those who "blow" for him.

Mr. Read says he can secure the influence of
Butler, Wilson, Dawes, Brooks, Banks, and a ma-
jority of the Committee of Ways and Means.
(Ex. 3.)

Upon the principal that misery loves company,
this must please Secy. Boutwell.

HEXBY BEAD. 61

Mr. Read says he is the friend of Dr. Collins.
(Ex. 4.)

This is a mistake, as the reader may judge.

Mr. Read says he has tried faithfully to help Dr.
Collins. (Ex. 5.)

The reader may j udge of the truth of this state-
ment.

Mr. Read says, in effect, that Mr. Ludlow
disposes of his reputation for honesty for a con-
sideration. (Ex. 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12.)

This is for Mr. Ludlow to answer. The reader,
in the mean time, forming his own opinion.

Mr. Read says he is anxious that the Discovery
be patented. (Ex. 14 and 15.)

This is done only from Mr. Read's Philan-
thropic desire to benefit humanity.

Mr. Read says Mr. Ludlow is very anxious to
form a co-partnership with Dr. Collins. (Ex. 16,
18 and 19.)

But Mr. Read dare not make any arrangements
until Mr. Ludlow leaves for Europe.

Mr. Read says Mr. Ludlow has decided to write
an article for Harper. (Ex. 20.)

Knowing positively that Mr. Ludlow did finally
write an article for Harper, we are inclined to be-
lieve that this statement is true.

62 HENRY REAIK

Mr. Read says Mr. Ludlow wrote an article
in which he referred to Dr. Collins and his Dis-
covery — and in which he said that he, {Ludlow), was
not the discoverer of the Care. (Ex. 21 and 22.)

Mr. Read has failed to give the name of the
publication in which this article appeared, and so
the reader must again judge of the truth of the
statement.

Mr. Read says that the^rs^ article of Mr. Lud-
low's,(in which he referred to Dr. Collins), sent him
(Read), 20 or more letters. (Ex. 23.)

This is singular. Perhaps the reader can judge
why they should send to Mr. Read when referred
to Dr. Collins.

Mr. Read says the new piece of Mr. Ludlow's
was the best he ever saw. (Ex. 24 and 26.)

This means, best for Mr. Read, and not, as might
be supposed, the best for Dr. Collins.

Mr. Read says he thinks Dr. Collins will be
pleased, when he sees Mr. Ludlow^ article. (Ex.
26.)

Mr. Read was mistaken.

Mr. Read says he was requested by Mr. Lud-
low to advise all Opium Eaters to take Dr Col-
lins' Antidote. (Ex. 28.)

It is in proof that Mr. ReaJ has advised the use
of other medioines upon the face of Mr. LudloVi
article.

HENRY BEAD. 63

Mr. Read says he does not know why Dr. Collins
was not referred to in the Harper article. (Ex. 29.)

If the reader can force himself to believe this
he mav

Mr. Read says that Dr. Collins receives all the
benefit arising from Mr. Ludlow's article. (Ex. 30.

Mr. Read is mistaken. It is in proof that Mr.
Read lias charged Opium Eaters One Hundred
Dollars {$100.) for medicine for which he has paid
Dr. Collins Fifty Dollars ($50.)

Fifty Dollars a piece for patients sent to Dr.
Collins, might be called disinterested philanthropy
— but it isn't very often.

o

The following from the facile pen of Mr. FlTZ
Hugh Ludlow is taken from Harper's Easy Chair
for August, 1870, and is the article to which refer-
ence has been made in the preceeding pages.

The reader will be loth to believe that Mr.
Ludlow saw the false impressions which his article
would create, and the long list of wrongs to which
it would give rise. And surelv no one can for a
moment doubt that having seen the injustice which
has been done, he will, to the best of his ability,
see that honor is given to whom it is due, and
justice done to all.

New York, June 15, 1870.

Dear Easy Chair: — To-day sailing for Europe,
an invalid, with all the uncertainties of return
which attend such a one, may I ask to say through

64 EXTRACT PROM HARPER'S.

you a word or two, in parting, to the class of our
suffering fellow men and women for whom, as you
know, I have spent a large part of my life — all
that part, indeed, which is usually the leisure of
a laborious profession ?

In the book published two years since by the
Messrs. Harper, under title of " The Opium
Habit," whose earlier chapters were edited by, and
the two closing ones original with me, I gave to
the public as condensed a statement as my limits
made imperative of the course of treatment which
many years' medical and scientific study, together
with an experience among Opium Eaters scarcely
to be surpassed in extent, had taught me was the
safest, quickest, least painful exit from a bell
over whose interior penetralia at least Humanity
had for years concurred to write, with a sigh,
" Lasciate ogni speranza." There I showed the
possibility of a release, and, so far as could be
done in such broad touches, sketched the means.
There I promised a salvation I had repeatedly
seen effected, and accumulated all the incentives
and encouragements to seek it which I knew ; but
with these I was obliged to preach a Spartan —
say rather a Christian — courage such as few
women and fewer men can summon to their aid
in the protracted agonies of the contest by which
the Opium Eater must win his freedom, even
under the many palliating and relieving circum-
stances which I there revealed. I had not then

EXTRACT FROM HARPER'S. 65

found what I confess has been one of my life's
ruling passions — a very agony of seeking to mid —
any means of bringing the habituated Opium
Eater out of his horrible bondage, without, or
comparatively without, pain. Thus far I had
failed in my wrestling interrogations of Nature
for the Antidote, the substitute, the agent, what-
ever it might be, by which Opium might be so
gradually replaced and eradicated as to present
the slave, some bright celestial morning, with his
manumission, before he could feel the blows
which struck the shackles from his feet.

I ask you, dear Easy Chair, to rejoice with me
that, in all probability, that wonderful discovery
has now been made ; that henceforth the salva-
tion of the Opium Eater, like that from any other
chronic disease, may be accomplished in such a
way that the cure brings not an increase but a re-
lief of the original suffering ; that the process of
giving to him his new self may now be not a ter-
rible volcanic throe that tears soul and body to
pieces, but a gentle, painless change, like those
milder forces of nature shown in the progress of
the seasons, the unbinding of the frost, the return
of the sun and gentle rains. A year ago I was
almost in despair of such a blessing ; but I must
believe — must declare — what my eyes have looked
upon.

I have had under my eyes a patient who had
jeen an habitual user of opium for years — whos

66 EXTRACT FROM HARPER'S.

daily rations of morphia had now reached the ter-
rible amount of thirty grains, (a case quite as-
tounding to minds not experienced among Opium
Eaters, but having numerous parallels in my ac-
quaintance) — who abandoned the drug at once in
its every form, and never touched it again from
that moment (four months ago) to the present
time. I have seen him going on with his daily
avocations, suffering no pain which required him
to lie down for a single day, feeling no temptation
to seek opiates, although he constantly carried
about his old morphia powders on his person, and
had made the un-Spartan resolve to resume his re-
lief if the new experiment for a moment failed.
He was expecting anguish all the time for his
first month of trial; but it never came, has not
come, and is most unlikely to come now that, af-
ter all these months his digestion has regained its
vigor, his step its elasticity, his eyes and cheeks
the freshness of health. Besides this case I have
seen numerous others, when their various compli-
cations are considered, no less remarkable and
from many more have had letters, all joyfully
unanimous in the testimony that their exit was
painlessly accomplished, and that the opium-
craving was not only appeased, but quite eradi-
cated, by the process of cure. I have been com-
pelled to confess that the life-long object of my
search seemed most marvellously accomplished.

EXTRACT FROM HARPER'S. 67

Were I staying in this country, instead of going
abroad as my last chance for life and health, I
would joyfully continue to answer the corres-
pondence which floods me on this subject from all
parts of the Union, and, at any expense to my-
self, make known this salvation to the most sor-
rowful sufferers of this world. Were this an ar-
ticle, instead of a communication receiving your
hospitality, dear Easy Chair, and were Harper *
a technical magazine, in which I could develop
the process of substitution and elimination by
which this marvellous blessing is accomplished, I
would now speak more at length. It is now suf-
ficient to say that the discovery is one which
ranks in importance to human weal and woe with
vaccination, chloroform, or any grandest achieve-
ment of beneficent science which marks an age.
The many who can bear me witness how willing-
ly I have responded to all inquiries for help to
the Opium Eater, by visit or letter, will be glad to
know that during my absence such inquirers may
apply to my noble-hearted and philanthropic
friend, Mr. Henry Read, of Lowell, Massachu-
setts, who possesses all my information on the
subject, and has kindly consented to let me roll
off upon his shoulders the loving but heavy
burden of answering such questions as might, if
I staid here, be addressed to me.

68 EXTRACT FROM HARPER'S.

By lettting me say these parting words trora
your kindly elevation, my dear Easy Chair, you
will bless thousands of sorrowful souls, and send
one away to Europe far less sorrowful, because
most hopeful, for them. Your friend,

Fitz Hugh Ludlow.

HISTORY OP AN OPIUM EATER. 69

OPIUM EATERS, ETC

The following letter, bearing date San Fran-
cisco, Cal., Jan. 26, 1871, contains the personal
experiences of a confirmed morphine cater, and
exposes, in a clear and forcible manner, the deter-
mined effort of Fitz Hugh! Ludlow and Har-
per's Magazine to wrest from Dr. Collins the
honor and emoluments of his great discovery.

The Chicago " Times," in giving place to the
article says :

" It exposes a very extraordinary attempt to
defraud the discoverer of a wonderful remedy out
of the just returns of his discovery, the parties to
the transaction being a well-known literateur,
who appears, according to the statements made,
to have been abetted by the publishers of Har-
pi-Ss Magazine. The article will be perused with
much interest."

The New Church "Independent" published at
the home of Dr. Collins, in giving place to the
article, says :

" We publish in this number of the Independ-
ent a letter, Written by one of the patients of Dr.
Collins, of this place, in reference to his Opium
Antidote and the D ictor's treatment by the liar-
■uer's: We are assured that it is genuine and not
a mere advertisement as some may suppose. In
view of the good which we know has resulted

70 HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.

from this treatment for the Opium Habit, we
cheerfully make room for this letter. As the Doc-
tor is an old citizen of our town and we have a
personal acquaintance with him and two of the
parties he has cured, we cheerfully recommend
him to the slaves of Opium."

The New York Independent says:

"In more than four hundred cases the remedy
of Dr. Collins has been thoroughly tested, without
a failure, many of the cases treated having been
in the last stages of the dreadful disease."

"The case of <G. A. T.,' the history of which
appeared in the Chicago Times, March 11th, is,
without doubt, the most wonderful case upon rec-
ord. Sixty grains of morphine was his daily por-
tion ; and yet at the first dose of the medicine all
desire for the drug instantly ceased."

The Argus, published at La Porte, says:

"The article in the Independent will be read
with interest, not only by those who are seeking
relief from the slavery of Opium, bur by all par-
ties who feel that right should prevail and merit
receive its just reward."

FITZ HUGH LUDLOW AND HARPER'S MAGAZINE.
Twenty-two years of a>j,e, with a constitution
of iron, brave of heart and strong of limb,
flushed with the brightest and highest of ambi-
tions, and cheered on by the smiles and huzzas
of the loyal people in the staid iittle town uf

HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER. 71

W , 1 marched, in 1861, for the battle-fields

of the South.

To be in the advance of our great army seemed
ev^r to be my fortune, and until the fall of 1864
I had never left my command.

But worn out with the hardships at which?
during the first two years of my service I had al-
ways laughed, I found myself, in September of
1864, en route for my home in Illinois.

But how was I changed ! In the rude strength
of youth, every inch of me a man, I had, scarcely
three years before, left my home and my friends.
I was returning to it and to them a mere wreck ;
an arm lefi upon the well-fought field of Shiloh; a
bullet near ray spine, the parting compliment of
the day at Stone River; constitution broken,
ambition gone, wasted to a shadow, and only sus-
tained by the wonderful power of Opium.

Long weeks and longer months of suffering had
so shattered my nervous system and reduced my
strength, that as a dernier resort my physician had
prescribed Morphia, and with the most flattering
results. Soothed by the wonderful power of that
most wonderful of narcotics, I forgot my pain,
and if I did not really mjoy life, I lived and
"blest the man that first invented Opium."

From June, 1864, until the winter of 1867, my
pain had been soothed and my strength sustained
by Morphia, the daily dose rapidly increasing
from one grain to twenty-three grains.

72 HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.

Not sufficiently robust to endure the rigors of
our northern climate, and having friends upon the
Pacific coast, I moved in the autumn of '67 to the
city of San Francisco, where I was first awakened
from the deadly stupor in which I had so long
lived. I had gained somewhat in weight and in
strength, and the vigor and clearness of my mind
had been unimpaired, and, little dreaming of the
gulf that yawned before me, little dreaming of
the shackles that bound me, for I had never
moved to the full length of my chain, — I never
hesitated when I put to my lips in the morning
the drug that was to give me the strength for the
day's labor. And why should I ? For years I
. had leaned upon its power ; for years it had soothed
me Avhen my body was racked with pain ; it had
been my strength, my life. Why should I fear
that one day the most gentle of servants should
become the most relentless of masters ? No
faithful friend warned me of the dangerous path
I was treading. I was to learn the error of my
way by the bitterest of all experiences.

The pursuit of my profession carried me to a
* small settlement in the interior of California,
where, after a long ride of twelve hours, I found
myself at a late hour one Saturday night.

Weary and cold I retired, only to be haunted
by the most, fearful of dreams, and to wake
from them with a sense of utter exhaustion, and
8,u uncontrollable desire for some thing. As

filSTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER. 73

hundreds of times before, I sought ray Morphia,
believing that in it I should find relief. My pock-
ets were turned inside out, ray valise ransacked
for the precious drug, when, who shall describe
my horror ? it was out !

The late hour of the night, the insignificance
of the settlement, not large enough, probably, to
support a drug store, and the wildness of the
storm and bad condition of the roads, shutting me
out from the world, flashed upon my mind in an
instant.

The house was aroused, and the country physi-
cian sent for in the hopes of finding that for
which I was almost dying, but in vain.

The long day — the longest I had then known —
was near its close ; the messenger sent forty miles
to procure Morphia had not returned, and with
brain on fire 1 was raving like a mad man. The
fearful sufferings of that day I shall not attempt
to describe. There are those who have expe-
rienced such agony, whose pens are more ready
than mine.

The Morphia came at last, and in the thirty
grains which I so eagerly swallowed, I forgot the
furnace through which I had passed.

This was my first awakening, and I was not
slow to appreciate the depth of the gulf into
which I had fallen ; I was not slow to believe
that I was the veriest of slaves, bound body and
soul.

74 HISTORY OF AN OPIUlf EATER.

How my soul revolted at such bondage; how I
struggled to free myself from my fetters; how I
agonized — I pray God none may know.

Three different times I endeavored, unaided, to
burst my bonds, but every time in vain, and after
each trial I was compelled to increase my daily
dose. Never relinquishing my desire to once
more stand upon my feet a free man, I left no
stone unturned to accomplish the end. Eminent
physicians were consulted, and for different pe-
riods of time their advice followed : but the untold
sufferings through which I was made to pass re-
sulted only in the lessening of my strength and
the chilling of my hopes.

An advertisement in a Memphis paper attracted
my attention, and I applied to the advertiser, who
claimed to have discovered a painless cure for the
Opium Habit. His remedy was faithfully tried ;
I lived over again the terrible anguish which I
can never forget, and seeing the great gale of
doom closing upon me, the last flickering ray ot
hope expired, and taking sixty grains of Morphia
per day, I gave myself over, body and soul, to
that Tyrant as unrelenting as Death, and far less
generous.

FITZ HUGH LUDLOW,
himself an Opium Eater, had turned his attention
to the unhappy condition of the bondmen and
bondwomen, and had published in Harjw's his
knowledge upon the subject, under the title of
" What Shall They Do to be Saved ?"

HISTORY OP AX OPIUM EATER. 75-

The article was in the usually brilliant style of
that brilliant man. but my own experience had
taught me the utter uselessriess of his plan when
applied to a case as desperate in all its phases as
was my own.

I read a book, accredited, though erroneously,
to him, entitled " The Opium Habit," — but saw
not one word calculated to arouse in my heart the
shadow of a hope.

The months went on, and I was daily growing
weaker under a punishment greater than I could
bear, when the August number of Harper* 's Mag-
azine was laid upon my table.

I took it up and mechanically glanced at its
contents, a? I lazily cut its pages. At last my
eye fell upon an article which has probably been
read by more Opium Eaters in this country than
any other literary or scientific article ever writ-
ten. I read and re-read, until the hope long
dead underwent a gradual resurrect ion, until,
as I laid down the book, its wings were wide
spread.

Ludlow had really found what had been to hkn
his " life's ruling passion ;" he had unlocked the
door that shut so many human beings out in the
darkness of despair ; he had made for himself a
name second to that of no great benefactor of
humanity — a name that our children's children
should rise up and call blessed. I closed my eyes
and, forgetting for a moment my misery, I fancied

.76 HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.

that I was free. I rose above the terrible slough
of despond • I saw the shackles loosen and fall
oif, and, thanking God and Ludlow, 1 \va9
happy.

But I could not always dream, and, waking
once more to the dread realities with which I was
surrounded, I resolved to lose no time in posses-
sing myself of the wonderful Elixir of Life.

To the friend of Mr. Ludlow, Henry Read, of
Lowell, Massachusetts, all anxious inquirers upon
the subject were referred.

Mr. Reed was written to — my case minutely
described, and any amount of money that might
be demanded gladly tendered — not for a cure,
that was impossible — but for even temporary relief
from my anguish.

For days that lengthened into weeks, I impa-
tiently awaited the mail that should bring me,
perhaps, a word of encouragement — but it came
not.

A telegraphic dispatch remaiuing unanswered
added to the terrible suspense of my condition,
and once more my hope was chilled.

Ludlow had sailed for Europe long before ;
a communication between his agent and myself
could not be established — and what was I to do ?
But I could do anything but remain idle.

I had seen somewhere an article highly com-
mendatory of the Antidote, but denying the truth
of the statement that Ludlow was its discoverer.

HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATEB. 77

Matters were becoming complicated, so I would
write to the Easy Chair of Harper's — surely it
knew all about it. I wrote, inclosing return post-
age, earnestly requesting that the name and resi-
dence of the discoverer be given me.

Weeks passed on, and, receiving no reply, and
fearful that the letter had miscarried or been mis-
laid, I wrote another letter — a personal one — ad-
dressed to the Editor of the Easy Chair by name.
The fate which had followed my other communi-
cations did not forget this one, and an answer was
never received.

At about this time — November, 1870 — there
appeared in the Easy Chair an " Explanation,"
that explained nothing but served to complicate
still more a. complicated affair. It seemed to me
that at least the name of the discoverer of the
Remedy might have been mentioned, allowing
Opium Eaters themselves to have determined re-
garding the "enormous prices" charged — a fac-
ulty which they possess in perhaps as high a degree
as the occupant of the Easy Chair.

Painfully interested as I was, I could not fail to
see that something was wrong — that somebody
was endeavoring, from any motive save a good
one, to withhold from Opium Eaters the name of
their benefactor.

The conduct of Harper's plainly showed that
Ludlow was not what he had claimed to be, and
that the magazine was doing all in its power— not

71 HISTORY OF AJS OPIUM EATER.

to rectify a glaring misrepresentation, but to clinch
a falsehood and perpetuate a wrong.

Wrought up to a state of desperation which
only a hopeless slave to Opium may know and
feel, I once more wrote to- the Easy Chair, en-
treating with all the eloquence and earnestness of
misery that I might know to whom to apply for
relief.

Fitz Hugh Ludlow was dead in Switzerland ;
Henry Read oouid not hear my cry ; would the
Easy Chair do this little act of kindness for hu-
manily's sake ? But the waste-basket of the Easy
Chair was larger by half than its heart — and no
reply was vouchsafed me.

The last week in November brought December
Harper, and in the Easy Chair appeared an obit-
uary upon Fitz Hugh Ludlow.

Here, at last, thought I, the mystery will be
solved. If Ludlow be really the discoverer of
this great cure, the fact cannot be omitted, and if
lie be not, how, in sketching his history, can his
connection with the great remedy be passed by?

But the Easy Chair was careful to pass unno-
ticed a fact it long had hid, and the article to
which thousands of Opium-Eaters, and scientific
men everywhere, anxiously looked for a resolu-
tion of the problem amounted to — nothing.

Mr. Ludlow's article was not frank, said tho
Easy Chair, but it was not necessary to impute
any ill-iutent to the writer.

HISTORY OP AN OPIUM EATEB. 79

The real facts in the case, known as they must
have been to the Easy Chair, were carefully with-
held ; the most important event in all the history
of Ludlow's life was merely alluded to — and the
mystery remained unsolved.

Surely, thought I, there is a part of the story
yet untold; some motive very deep, if not very
good, prompts the withholding of a single name,
the divulging of which would bless thousands.

But the mystery was to be solved by and by
— I was to be given to read the whole of the story,
and to repeat it into listening and eager ears.

My condition at this time had become critical.
Once more I had become but the shadow of a
man — my brain and my body were racked by
intensest pain — my days were full of agony and
my nights of horror — and I had come to fear
for the empire of my reason.

My physician and friends, one and all, had lost
all hope, and were waiting for a summons they
had long expected, and wondered at its long delay.

Sitting one day in the parlor of my home, for
I had long ago given up my profession, my mail
was brought in, and among it I found a little
book sent to me by some sympathizing but
unknown friend.

The title, "Theriaki and Their Last Dose,"
rather attracted my attention. Merely for the
purpose of whiling away a half-hour, I con>
menced its perusal.

80 HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.

I soon became deeply interested, and read with
increasing interest the letters of FUz Hugh Lud-
low, and the clear but astounding relation of the
remarkable cures that had been performed.

Here then I had found what I had so long
searched for — the name of the discoverer of the
Antidote so carefully tested and strongly com-
mended by Mr. Ludlow.

There remained in my mind no doubt as to
whom the honor of the discovery belonged. This
time Ludlow's letters were unequivocal, pointing
directly to the man whose "thunder he had sto-
len " — with whose honor he had clothed himself.
I read, and at once believed in the wonderful
power of the Remedy, and believed that the man
who could so vigorously conduct a warfare — sur-
rounded as he was by difficulties almost insur-
mountable — to a successful termination, must
surely have something for which to fight, could
be anything but an impostor.

Ludlow, then, was not the discoverer of the
Antidote, but, despite misrepresentations strength-
ened and aggravated by the conduct of the Har-
per's, the real discoverer had come to light in the
person of Samuel B. Collins, of La Porte, Ind.

I exhibited the book to several of my most
intimate friends, expressing my determination of
sending at once for the medicine.

To this, however, my friends objected. I was
so very low, they said, would it not be better to

HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER. 81

visit the Doctor in his own home? He would
understand then, they argued, the desperate con-
dition of my case.

Acting upon their earnest advice I prepared for
what seemed to me a long, long journey, and one
from which many of my friends never expected I
would return alive. I reached Chicago, worn out
by my trip, upon the 23d of December, 1870.

Needing rest, I concluded to remain one day in
the city, and resolved, before I left, to call upon
Mr. Chapman, whose name, as one of the cured
Opium Eaters appears in " Theriaki."

I found Mr. Chapman an agreeable gentleman,
and listened with intense interest to his ; elation
of his sufferings and his cure; how for 14 years
he had used 18 grains Morphia per day — and how
he was completely and permanently cured. His
assurance that in his opinion my cure was only a
question of time, gave me greater confidence and
stronger hope.

I reached La Porte Christmas eve, intending
after a Sabbath day's rest to call upon the Doctor
and lay my case before him.

A. P. Andrew, Jr., whose name also appears in
"Theriaki," lived across the way from the hotel
at which I was stopping, and upon him I called.
He was the first person who ever took a dose ol
the Antidote, and was permanently cured in five
months. Mr. Andrew corroborated the state-
ments of Whitmore, Culver, and Darrow. Again

82 HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.

I was assured that my cure was not impossible,
and, feeling sure that but a single night separated
me from the mystery explained, I returned to the
hotel.

The excitement which had thus far kept me up
subsided now that I had reached the end of my
tourney, and I woke, upon the morning after
Christmas, entirely exhausted.

Taking twenty-five grains of Morphia before I
was able to leave my bed, I dressed, and wearily
traversed the very short distance between the hotel
and the residence of the Doctor.

I was ushered into a cozy little parlor, and in a
moment the man in whose hands my destiny was
held, appeared.

Picture to yourself a man, five feet ten inches
in height, powerfully built, — long brown whiskers
and mustache — light hair and complexion, and a
light, piercing eye — a deliberate thinker and
speaker — self-made and positive, — and you have
the picture of the man who has solved the great-
est of all medical problems — the discovery of a
remedy which, in its power of benefiting human-
ity, is without a rival.

My case was quickly explained, and with bated
breath I asked : " Can anything be done for me ?"
The Doctor, in a tone of voice which plainly
showed his wonderful confidence in the power of
his remedy, slowly replied : " You have only to
follow carefully all directions, and you can be

HISTORY OF«AN OPIUM EATER. 83

cured painlessly — permanently." He paused a
moment, as if for a reply, but I could say noth-
ing.

" Your nerves, now shattered, will be strength-
ened," continued he, " the organs of your body
resume their natural functions — and you will be
a man again. It is only a question of time."

I was anxious to take the first dose of the
medicine that promised to do so much for me, so
I was requested to return to the office in the
afternoon.

At just one o'clock, the time at which I usu-
ally took my dose of 1 5 grains, I returned to the
office, and there took the first teaspoonful of the
Antidote.

The effect was most wonderful ; my nerves be-
came instantly quiet — the temperature of my
body regular and natural ; in short, that single
teaspoonful of medicine had completely taken the
place of 15 grains of Morphia.

All that afternoon, like one in a dream, I
wandered about — it surely could not be a reality

this freedom from pain ! But two days passed

and I had touched no Morphia, and felt better
than I had felt for years.

Having nothing to call me home, I resolved to
spend a week where I could be under the Doctor's
own care, and during my visit to his home I
related to him the many fruitless attempts I had
made to discover his " habitation and his name,"

84 HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.

and how merely by accident I had finally made
the discovery."

Evidently interested in the rehearsal of my
trials, he gave me at length the facts of the ease,
placing in my hands copies of the documents
necessary to substantiate the story.

That Opium Eaters may know the solution of
a question which long has puzzled them, and in
which they have a deep interest; that they may
know the course pursued toward them by Harper's
Magazine, and thus be able to distinguish their
true friends, I shall briefly repeat the story :

The discovery of Dr. Collins was made in July,
1868, and upon the 18th day of the same month
the first dose was taken by A. P. Andrew, Jr.

In the fall of the following year, though very
little advertised, the fame of the remedy had
traveled from mouth to mouth, until the Doctor
had patients at many points distant from his
home.

In October, 1869, a patient of the Doctor's resid-
ing in Missouri, sent to Fitz Hugh Ludlow a
small phial of the Antidote, which he carefully
tested. Mr. Ludlow then wrote to the doctor,
Nov. 25, and a correspondence, interrupted only
by Mr. Ludlow's departure for Europe, was the
result. Mr. Ludlow desired to test the remedy,
voluntarily promising, if the test was satisfactory,
to write an article for both Harper's Monthly and
Weekly, setting forth the facts in the case.

HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATEE. 85

Dr. Collins furnished Mr. Ludlow with sixteen
bottles of his medicine, free of charge ; the test
was carefully and successfully made, and Mr.
Ludlow testified to that fact in his article published
in August.

The article was written in June, and previous
to its appearance a determined effort was made to
form a copartnership between Ludlow, Reed, and
the Doctor.

Negotiations of this nature being still pending,
the long-looked-for article appeared, which ren-
dered their favorable termination impossible, and
betrayed the well-laid plan of defrauding the Doc-
tor not only out of his hire, but out of the honor
which was his due.

Believing, perhaps, in the probability of a part-
nership being formed, Ludlow had written the
article in such a manner as to completely conceal
the discoverer of the remedy, and place the honor
upon himself.

So completely was Dr. Collins ignored, that his
name was not mentioned, and Henry Read was
named as the person to whom all inquirers should
apply.

And to make room for this article, Mr. Ludlow
withheld an advertisement designed for Harper's,
and in which the name of Dr. Collins appeared.

But it is not necessary to impute any ill intent
to the writer, says the Easy Chair — his " article
was not as frank as it should have been " — but it

86 HISTORY OF AX OPIUM EATER.

was fully as frank as the Easy Chair's " Explana-
tion " in November.

Then commenced the war with Mr Reed, who
held, by the authority of Ludlow's article, the
destinies of the discovery.

To correct the misrepresentations of Ludlow's
article, and to wrest from Mr. Reed authority
to which he was not entitled, " Theriaki " was
published.

Mr. Reed, seeing to what his actions threatened
to bring him, and tired perhaps, of the war,
gracefully surrendered, and went at the work of
righting the wrong. He used his influence with
the Easy Chair to have the misrepresentation cor-
rected, and the honor given to the real discoverer
of the Remedy.

This the Easy Chair unconditionally promised
to do, in the following letter, dated Sept. 5, 1870,
and addressed to Henry Read :

" Dear Sir : I have received both your last
letters and have carefully considered what you
say.

" It is too late to speak of the subject in the
next number of the magazine, which is already
in press; but in the following number I shall
state upon your authority that Mr. Collins is the
inventor and proprietor ; that you and Mr. Lud-
low testify to its efficacy ; and that I, of course,
cannot know whether you or he have any other
than a philanthropic interest in it. That you

HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER. 87

have had such an interest hitherto, you say in
your letters, although you also say it was for
Ludlow's benefit. There is no harm in that, but
there is great harm in giving another impression,
which Ludlow's letter certainly did. Yours,

"(Signed),
"The Easy Chair of Harper's Magazine."

There are two points in this letter worthy of
mention : The direct promise to state that Dr.
Collins was "the inventor and proprietor," — and
the honest indignation against the wrong impres-
sion conveyed by Ludlow's letter.

Mr. Read, having written Dr. Collins to the
effect that the correction would be made, the doc-
tor forwarded that portion of the letter to the
" Easy Chair."

In the reply the Easy Chair forgets its une-
quivocal promise, but still expresses indignation
at the deception :

" Sept, 27, '70— The Easy Chair of Harper's
Magazine has read Mr. Collins' note and iuclo-
sure.

"Long before, however, it had decided, upon
further consideration, not io advertise Mr. Col-
lins as the proprietor of the Antidote men-
tioned by Mr. Ludlow in an article which the
Easy Chair would not have inserted had it been
as fully informed upon the subject as it now is."

This much for the promise of the Easy Chair
of Harper's Magazine.

88 HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.

Although perfectly aware of the deception that
had been used, — by no means ignorant of the
injury that had been done — and still crying out
against it, — any just explanation of the matter
was refused

Well, the November number of Harper appeared
and in it there was an "Explanation."

Again the name of Dr. Collins was omitted,
though the Easy Chair knew the facta — and an
attempt made to cast an air of .suspicion around the
whole matter — a statement being made in regard
to the amount charged, which was in letter and
in spirit a glaring falsehood. So much for the
promise and "Explanation" of the Easy Chair,
to right the wrong.

The importance of the matter, both to Dr.
Collins and to Opium Eaters everywhere, de-
manded that at least one more attempt be made.

Moral suasion had entirely failed — no appeals
from suffering humanity, no considerations of
justice or of right, whatever, could move the Easy
Chair — it now remained to try money.

Dr. Collins then wrote to the Easy Chair, inclos-
ing fifty dollars, — briefly reviewing the facts already
known to its occupant, — and concluding : "I have
to request that you would, in your own way, and
no matter how briefly, set this matter at rest, once
and forever, by giving through the Easy Chair
the credit of the discovery to whom it rightly
belongs. This no less for the benefit ot Quium
Eaters than to further my own interests."

HISTORY OP AN OPIUM EATER. 89

The result was the following letter, which
plainly showed that not money even would incline
the Easy Chair to do a simple act of justice :

New York, Oct, 24, 1870.— Sir: I have a
note from you of the 17th inst., inclosing a money
order for $50, and you request that certain things
shall be stated in this department of the magazine.

" The late Mr. Ludlow wrote a note which was
published in that department, alluding to an
Opium Antidote, and mentioning Mr. Henry Read,
of Lowell, as the person to be inquired of.

" What arrangements Mr. Ludlow and Mr.
Read may have had, the Easy Chair does not
know. But no assertion whatever has been made
in regard to you, nor does the Easy Chair pro-
pose to make any — certainly not in consideration
of money.

"Advertisements should be addressed to the
publisher of the magazine.

" I inclose to you the money sent by you.

" Yours,

" (Signed)

"The Easy Chair of Harper's Maga-
zine."

Under date of September 5, the Easy Chair
promised to state that Dr. Collins was the discov-
erer of the Antidote. Under date of October 24,
no statement whatever had been made regarding
him. If consistency be a jewel, the Easy Chair
would make a good setting.

90 HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.

It became evident that the Easy Chair occupied
a position entirely out of sight of the Scales of
Justice, and the Doctor, as a last resort, fowarded
to Harper & Bros., an advertisement, which, on
account of its peculiarly objectionable "nature," I
reproduce here:

" THE OPIUM HABIT.

" Fitz Hugh Ludlow's letters upon the subject
of the Opium Habit, together with a full explana-
tion of the disco very referred to by him in the Au-
gust number of this magazine, — " Theriaki and
their Last Dose," — will be sent to any address free
of charge.

" Address the discoverer of the Antidote,

" Samuel B. Collins, etc."

This advertisement was mailed upon the 1st of
December. No acknowledgment of its receipt
having been received, a letter of inquiry was
mailed upon the 12th.

No notice having been taken of either letter, a
telegram was sent upon the 19th, which elicited
the following, to which the attention of Opium
Eaters is called :

« New York, Dec. 20.— S. B. Collins: Ad-
vertisements of such a nature, don't wish to in-
sert. (Signed) Harper & Bros.

This, then, was the end of the whole matter. A
gross misrepresentation had been made in the
columns of the Easy Chair — that department of

HI5T0BY OF AN OPIUM EATER. 91

tire magazine, though entirely cognizant of the
fact, refused to make the correction,— forcing an-
other misrepresenation upon the heels of a prom-
ise to rectify — and finally declining to insert for
money an advertisement on "account of its na-
ture," — fully as unexceptionable as any that has
ever appeared in the columns of that very select
magazine.

And thus ends the story, interesting inasmuch
as it proves the disinterested humanity of the
Easy Chair, and its unfaltering devotion to what
it believes to be right.

Poorly told as it has necessarily been, it may
furnish food for reflection for those poor souls who
have been misled as I "was misled, and caused to
suffer as I suffered, by an act of injustice, which
a single word could have made right.

As for me, the Easy Chair, in giving place to
Ludlow's article, had brightened my hope and
lightened my heart, but it cruelly dashed my
hopes, and I turned from it with a heavier feeling
at my heart than I had ever known before.

For the harbor which I filially reached, for the
smiling sky and quiet sea above and around me, I
cannot thank Harper — for I reached that harbor
despite the false lights that were ranged along the

shore.

I remained in La Porte one week, and, taking
a supply of medicine sufficient to effect a cure, I
started for my home anything but the hollow-

92 HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.

hearted ghost that the quiet Hoosiers stared at
with mouths wide open.

It has now been thirty days since I touched a
grain of Morphia, and I have gained so wonder-
fully in weight, in strength, and in looks that my
friends are wont to pass me by unrecognized.

Because of the fulness of my heart, and that
other poor souls may know and feel my happiness,
this letter is written — and that said, my whole
interest in the matter is told.

G. A. T.

THE OPIUM HABIT. 93

Since the issuance of the first edition of
" Theriaki," the number of patients has steadily
increased, until there now stand upon the books
near!y six hundred uames.

Persons of all ages and conditions of life —
strong men and weak women: — persons afflicted
with almost-every ill to which flesh is heir, have
been treated and cured, and so very many of the
questions which patients would be led to ask may
be anticipated in these pages.

Tli ere are some who, when they find that from
the first dose of the Antidote all desire and
necessity for Opium in any form disappear,
become fearful that they are still using in some
form or other, the drug from whose baneful in-
fluence they would escape.

If the fact that Opium does not antidote itself
be borne in mind, and the patient remembers that
no painless process of gradual diminution has ever
been discovered, the idea will be at once, dis-
missed.

To bring the patient from under the power of
Opium without pain, requires that the undue ten-
sion of the nervous system be not too suddenly
lessened, and so, as the drug is suddenly with-
drawn, the Antidote supplies for the time being,
its place, at the same time expelling the poison

94 THE OPIUM HABIT.

from the system, and restoring its nervous ener-
gies.

The Antidote holds the nervous system in die
same condition of rest or unrest in which it finds
it — lessening its tension so gradually as to be im-
perceptible to the patient.

Local and transient causes have their efl
upon the strongest — there are times when we all
feel languid and despondent — and to no person do
these uncomfortable feelings come oftener than to
the confirmed Opium Eater.

A patient while undergoing treatment most
generally watches with the greatest anxiety the
progress of the cure — is particularly sensitive to
every change of feeling — and so is very apt to
give great prominence to a symptom which at
other times would pass unnoticed.

It is not strange that in the great process of
elimination, and before the organs of the body
have resumed their functions, the patient should
feel at times a sensation of weariness — a lack of
ambition.

But as no actual pain is felt, and as such symp-
toms are always transient, the patient should by
no means lose courage in the efficacy of the Anti-
dote.

There have been two instances where an over-
sensitive patient, experiencing this feeling of las-
situde, has laid aside the Antidote and again
resorted to Opium. A most unfortunate combi-

THE OPIUM HABIT. 95

nation of circumstances has at once appeared — for
while the Antidote is a perfect substitute for
Opium, Opium is not a perfect substitute for the
Antidote.

It sometimes happens that patients, feeling
under the invigorating influence of the Antidote
an increase of nervous power to which they have
long been strangers, labor or exercise beyond their
strength, thus bringing on a relaxed condition of
the nervous system. At such times they occa-
sionally complain that the Antidote has not suffi-
cient sustaining power.

Dr. Collins wishes it understood that while the
ordinary affairs of every-day life need not be
interrupted during treatment, the medicine is not
designed to furnish strength for unusual labor.

While Dr. Collins guarantees a cure .in every
case in which all directions are scrupulously fol-
lowed, he wishes it distinctly understood that he
neither guarantees a cure, or holds himself in any
way responsible for any evil effects which might
result from a violation of his explicit directions.
Dr. Collins wishes here to warn patients from
allowing any parties, whether Opium Eaters or
not, to take, or even taste, the medicine prepared
for another.

To save a multiplicity of questions, and that
patients may never be at a loss to know what is
expected of them, it is thought best to give the
following

96 THE OPIUM HABIT.

DIRECTIONS.

Opium in every form must be entirely discon-
tinued from the first dose of the Antidote, and
never, under any circumstances whatever, be re-
sorted to again.

All acids — including, <>f course, fruits that arc
s«»ur, and all spirituous or malt liquors, must be
entirely avoided.

The use in any form whatever of Mercury,
Strychnia, Arsenic and Belladonna, is strictly
forbidden

Mineral Waters, Sedlitz Powders, Hydrate
Chloral and preparations of Indian Hemp, are
also forbidden.

Should it any time become necessary to employ
the services of a physician, the patient should
particularly warn him against the use of any arti-
cle above mentioned.

The doses are to be taken with regularity, and
exactly as directed upon each label — and should
never be increased or diminished except by direc-
tion of Dr. Collins.

Should the patient be troubled with constipa-
tion, the action of the bowels may be regulated
by the use of from one to three of Tilden's Im-
proved Cathartic Pills. Where the Pills cannot
be obtained, the patient may use any mild cathar-
tic which does not contain Calomel.

THE OPIUM HABIT. 97

Diarrhea, which seldom occurs during treat-
ment, may be checked with the following pre-
scription :

Tinct. Capsicum 1 ounce.

Tinct. Myrrh 1 drachm.

Tannic Acid 10 grains.

Simple Syrup 3 ounces.

Mix. Dose: Twenty drops to a Teaspoonful
every three hours.

Never doubting in the ultimate result of the
treatment, let the patient be hopeful — following,
with the utmost care, the directions given.

OS THE OPIUM HABIT,

TO PERSONS ORDERING MEDICINE.

It is not strange that there are many counter-
feits before the public — medicines which, in color
and taste resemble very closely the medicine com-
pounded by Dr. Collins.

Such a medicine, but devoid, of course, of the
wonderful powers of the genuine Antidote, is
compounded in the city of La Porte.

That patients may not be imposed upon, the
Doctor has taken precaution to have his name
blown in the glass of each bottle, and to enclose
in each box containing the first supply of medi-
cine to each patient, a copy of Theriaki.

The patient, by remembering this, may avoid
imposition : None genuine unless the words,
"Opium Habit Cured by Dr. S. B. Collins, La
Porte, Inda.," appear blown in the glass of each
bottle — and a copy of Theriaki accompanies each
first shipment.

From the price list given in these pages, there
will be no deviation, it having been found neces-
sary to work closely to an established rule.

In cases of absolute poverty, the person should
obtain from near neighbors a sworn certificate of
his or her circumstances, without which, no appeal
for a reduction of price will be considered.

It should be remembered that the person should
state the full amount of the drug necessary to

THE OPIUM HABIT. 90

keep the nerves in a* perfectly quiet state, for
when a less amount is given, the medicine fails to
have any beneficial effect.

A blank containing questions to be answered
is sent to each patient, with the request that it bo
filled out and returned.

Five dollars per bottle should accompany each
order when medicine is to be sent, C. O. D.

Money sent by Post Office Order is always safe.
When that cannot be done the letter should be
registered.

All bills are payable monthly iu advance.

Patients should always give Count/ and Slate
plainly.

Address

Dr. Samuel B. Collins,

La Porte, TndL

100 THE CRITERION OF MERIT.

If individual success only awakened honest
emulation and quickened to honorable rivalry,
this would be a very pleasant world. But envy,
detraction and double dealing are called into life
by that same success, just as the sun that ripens
the corn gives rank luxuriance to the weeds
between. Now Dr. Collins is the pioneer in
the cure of the Opium Habit, his merits are
recognized and rewarded, and it is wonderful to
sec how the little city of La Porte is astir with
philanthropists who have given years, if not
whole ages, to the discovery of an antidote for
the great enslaver of the human race, to-wit,
Opium, and have succeeded Pamphlets with as
many pages as there are days in a fortnight, come
out like leaves in spring, proclaiming a year of
jubilee to the hopeless victims -abroad, forgetting
all the while that "charity begins at home;'' for-
getting, if not the injunction " physician, heal
thyself," at least the homely counsel, "physician,
lieal thine own!" One comes reluctantly (!)
before the public, clothed with modesty as with
a garment, at the earnest solicitation of friends
who have importuned and w r orried him outright
into rescuing poppy-eating mankind. Antique
professors come to resurrection and declare the
new salvation. You can hardly turn over a mossy
at' >ne without finding a philanthropist under it.

THE CRITERION OF MERIT. 101

They all bleed for suffering humanity, and shall
not suffering humanity bleed a little in return ?
They extend bottles of blessing to the human
race with one hand, but they throw boulders at
Dr. Collins with the other. One name with
a title at both ends, like an elephant, asserts that
Dr. Collins is " not reliable," to which Dr. C.
replies that the name aforesaid cannot be surpassed
for re'Zi'e-ability. All persons are not alike gifted,
but Dr. C. is content. He is glad the old fashion
of sacrificing a cock to Aesculapius is obsolete,
else the philanthropists of La Porte, each claim-
ing a bird for his especial offering, would be fatal
to the poultry of I. a Porte.

But Dr. Collins has work much too serious
and important to trifle by the way with philan-
thropists who have nothing to do but save man-
kind, while Dr. Collins has not only to cure the
Opium Habit, but also to make money. He only
wonders how whole life times of profound
research for the discovery of an Opium cure
should have ripened simultaneously, and only
after Dr. Collins' success was fully assured.
But there being no pecuniary advantage in the
solution of this mystery, Dr. C. leaves it alto-
gether to the philanthropists themselves..

Dr. Collins takes this method of announcing
that he has made arrangements to erect at once a
first class, three story marble front building, con-
taining a laboratory and spacious offices and

102 THE CRITERION OF MERIT.

consultation rooms on East Main Street, Post
Office Block in the city of La Porte. The
vast increase of his professional business has
compelled him to devise greater facilities for
preparing the medicine and meeting the wants of
his patients. When the new headquarters for the
cure of the Opium Habit are completed, Dr.
Collins will be glad to welcome his friends, and
if he can render the philanthropists any service,
they need only drop the boulders outside the door
while they extend to him the empty and friendly
hand, and he will do any neighborly thing for
them except disclosing the composition of the
ONLY painless and certain remedy ever discovered
—Dr. Collins' OPIUM CURE.

THE CRITERION OF MERIT. 103

WHAT PATIENTS Sil.

The following from A. P. Andrew, Jr., who is
one of the oldest, as he is one of the most re-
spected citizens of La Porte, speaks for itself:

"La Porte, April 20, 1871.

" Dr. S. B. Collins :

Many persons have written to me wishing to
know if the cure performed by the Compound
prepared by you for the Opium Habit sticks, or
in other words, stands the test of time.

It is now nearly two and a half years since I
was cured, during which time I have not used
Opium in any of its preparations, nor any substi-
tute therefor — and have no inclination to do so.
My health is good for one of my age — (seventy
years). You can make such use of this as you
please. Respectfully, etc.,

A. P. Andrew, Jr."

" Hastings, Mich., March 5, 1871.

" Dr. S. B. Collins— Dear Sir :

I am most happy to inform you that through
the agency of your medicine I am at last cured of
the Opium Habit. I do not feel the least desire
for or need of Opium in any form ; and it is now
nearly three weeks since I left off taking the sub-
stitute. I have about a bottle and a quarter left
from the last three vou sent me. I weigh thirty

104 THE CRITERION OF MERIT.

pounds more than I did a year ago, and am still
gaining. My wife thinks I had better consult
you about a substitute for ham and eggs ; she
says I keep her busy cooking. I hardly know
how to express myself, I feel so different and so
much more like my old self; and, above all, i
feel myself no longer a slave.

But no one could appreciate how I feel, if I
could tell it ever so well, except those who have
been in a similar situation, and suddenly found
themselves restored to life, health, and manhood
again; and that, too, without any pain or incon-
venience. Very truly yours,

J. C. Ketchum."

I hereby certify that the following are true ex-
cerpta from original and genuine letters, now on
file in my office, from patients whom I have
treated, or am now treating for the Opium Habit.

Samuel B. Collins.

Sworn and subscribed to before me, the under-
signed Justice of the Peace, the 24th day of April,
1871. J. Fradenburg, J. P.

A lady patient in Connecticut writes:

"My head has not been so clear for years. I
rest better nights and have a better appetite. I am
entirely weaned from Morphia, and don't think I
could be tempted to ever taste it again. You may
well say that your medicine is the most wonder-
ful discovery of the age — for it is indeed. There
«vn't be praise enough for it."

THE CRITERION OF MERIT. 105

A lady patient residing in Illinois writes :

"Your remedy is more than in my wildest
dreams I had ever promised myself. I find it
every thing, and if possible more, than yon claim
for it. I am doing very nicely, and shall ever
hear your name with a throb of gratitude in my
heart. I feel a deep interest in this matter — a
strong desire that the unfortunate class of beings
to whom I so lately belonged may be led to a
knowledge of the aid you can give them."

A gentleman from Tennessee writes:

"I must confess my astonishment at the perfect
results of the Antidote. From the first day to
the present I can see an improvement in health
and also in mind. That lost and anxious look
has disappeared, and I am again cheerful an<
happy.'"

A gentleman residing in Michigan, after twenty-
five years' habitual use of Opium, writes:

"I am a week old to-day, and behold, all things
are new ! Oh, marvellous discovery! You have
that in your keeping more precious than the
4 golden fleece' or the philosopher's stone, which
were sought for so long and sought in vain ! The
good hand of our God has put in your hand a
very Elixir of Life. I was never so happy —
never so well in my life.

" To no man living have I so graceful a sense
of debt as to you, for you cannot weigh out the
price thereof in gold ; it is not a debt of dollars."

106 THE CRITERION OF MERIT.

A gentleman residing in New York, after taking
one bottle of the Antidote, writes :

" Your Opium Antidote is the wonder of the
age. I left off taking Morphia and began taking
the Antidote, experiencing no bad feelings. I
slept well each night, and had a good appetite all
the time. The half has never been told of the
wonderful properties oi the medicine. I had
tried different times to break myself of the habit,
but failed each time, and suffered more than a
person with the delirium tremens. But I am
fully cured, and feel an hundred per cent, better
than when taking Morphia."

A physician of eminence in Virginia writes:

" Your compound seems to contain everything
requisite for the broken down, sensitive system of
the Opium Eater. It works like magic in its
sustaining, invigorating, and tranquilizing effects
upon a worn out system, all of which properties
are essential in such a curative, and are most har-
moniously blended.

"I regard it as a substitute, antidote, and the
finest stimulant I have ever known. It satisfies
and gratifies the cravings for stimulants without
producing the usual disagreeable after conse-
quences."

A distinguished lawyer of Rhode Island, writes:

"I have never suffered for a single moment,
and the only difficulty I find is to think of it and
take the medicine regularly. I feel perfectly sat-

THE CRITERION OF MERIT. 107

isfied, and perfectly well. The past winter has
been one of unusual trial to mo. I have been in
Court almost, every day without exception, since
I commenced taking- the medicine. I feel perfectly
clear, and can bear any amount of fatigue and hard
brain work.

"Say to the world that it is the greatest, most
wonderful and most priceless boon and discovery
ever offered to suffering humanity in this or any
other age."

From Indiana a patient writes :

"Thanks be to God, dear Sir, for your wonder-
ful and painless cure — for it is painless in the
strictest sense, I having felt better every way,
from the first dose — much better than when in
regular use of the wily drug. My skin cleared
up — my eyes brightened, and what was still bet-
ter my original elasticity and clearness of intellect
returned to me. My sleep became natural and
refreshing — no more twitching of my nerves, and
starting up in my sleep — my appetite constantly
improving, sensibility of my bowels returning —
all my secretions resuming a normal character.
In a word, I feel like a new man — am made
over — becoming young again."

108 WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.

WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.

The remedy of Dr. Collins has been tested in hundreds
of cases without a single failure, and Fitz Hugh Ludlow,
after thoroughly testing it, declared it to be the most won-
derful discovery of the nineteenth century. — Buffalo Courier

Dr. Collins, as the discoverer of a painless cure for the
Opium habit-, has conferred as great a blessing upon human-
ity as did Jenner in his discovery of vaccinal ion, or Guthrie
in his discovery of chloroform. — Chicago Journal.

It is known that the greatest efforts haye been put forth
to find some remedy or help by which the terrible victims
of the Opium habit might be enabled to get rid of their
chains. The result had been, till lately, like the search for
the elixir of life — all in vain. Fitz Hugh Ludlow — himself
a victim — says, "it had been his life's ruling passion, a very
agony of seeking to find some antidote lor the evil." In
vain DeQuincy, another illustrious victim, wailed out,
"the chain must be loosed and unwound, link by link, from
the end back to the beginning ; and not one in ten thousand
is able to endure the prolonged anguish. Nature Jias yielded
her secret. Help has come, — perfect, complete, painless. —
Herald, Leslie, Mich.

Opium. — The honor of the discovery of Chloroform —
assuredly one of the most beneficent discoveries ever made
in medicine — must be shared between Guthrie, Soubeiran
and Leibig, each having discovered it at about the same
time, in the year 1831.

But in 18G8 a discovery was made which in its power of
benefiting humanity is not second to Chloroform, and which
for years has defied the unwearied search of some of the
mosteminent of medical men.

We refer to the discovery of Dr. Samukl B. Collins, of
La Porte, Ind., a painless cure for the Opium Habit. — TV. Y
Independent.

WHAT THE PRESS SAYS. 109

In the April number of the New Church Independent is
published a letter from California, detailing a history of the
trials of one of our townsmen, in his efforts to prevent Fitz
Hugh Ludlow — a writer for Harper's Magazine — from
swindling him out of the benefits arising from the discov-
ery of a very important medicine, for the cure of the Opium
Habit. The fact of the discovery is well known to nearly
all of our local readers, but the course pursued by Eastern
sharpers to swindle Dr. Collins is known to but few, and the
article in the Independent will be read with interest, not only
by those who are seeking relief from the slavery of Opium,
but by all parties who feel that right should prevail and
merit receive its just reward. Dr. C. made this discovery
in the summer of 1868, but his circumstances were not such
as to enable him to bring it immediately before the public.
By some hocus pocus the great Fitz Hugh Ludlow, who was
himself an Opium Eater, learned the efficacy of the medi-
cine, and deliberately planned to cheat Dr. Collins out of
the honors and emoluments justly his due. But we are
happy to chronicle the fact that he met with signal failure.
HiB schemes were completely thwarted, and the Doctor
remains in undisturbed enjoyment of the fruits of his great
discovery. His business is rapidly increasing and he has
the perfect confidence of an immense number of patients
and correspondents. His success is a feather in the cap of
La Porte, and his course will teach Eastern sharpers to
seek victims elsewhere than in our little Forrest city.— La
Porte Argus.

Db Collins has received letters from several patients
enclosing a small pamphlet prepared by somebody in La
Porte, who is ambitious to be a boon to his fellow-beings.

Of yhe pamphlet and the pamphleteer, Da Collins has
ouly to say that the pamphleteer in question might, perhaps,
find fit subjects for his wonderful skill within his own imme-
diate family.

But the Doctor- deems it an act of justice to his patients
to assure them that however names have been obtained by
the person in question, it has certainly been after the
packages bearing those names have left the Doctor's office
and passed into the custody of the Express Company ; and
to state further that he has taken such measures as will
effectually prevent any tampering wish his private corres-
pondence in the future.

3ST O T I O E

NO MEDICINE iS GENUh^l

UNLESS PUT VT IN BOTTLES UTON WHICH THE WORM

Opium Habit Cured by Dr. S. B. Collius,

La Porte, Indiana,
appear blown in the glass,— and unless a copy of

1 HER1AKI

accompanies eaoh first shipment. All letters of inquiry, and orders for
medicine should be addressed to

Dh S B. COLLINS,

La Porte, Ind.

Dr. Collin9 refers to —

F. West, Druggist, La Porte.

Ireland & Mkrritt, Druggists, La Porte.

A. P. Andrew, Jr. Canker, Lit Porte.

H. L. Weaver, Cash. 15. Bank, La Porte.

R. S. Morrison, Cash. 1st Nat. Bank, L.-t Porte.

Dwight Fraser, Postmaster, La Porto.

G H. Churchill, Express Agent.

Geo. M. Dakin, M. D., La Porte.

R. C Hall. Groton, N. Y.

John Darling, Wallaceburg. Canada.

J. S. Ralston, Indiana, Pa.

C. B. Tilden, Washington, D. C.

Mrs. H. S. Davis, Chicago, 111.

B. F. Tatlor, La Porte, Ind.

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